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1732 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1732.

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Events

  • January 6 – The Teatro Filarmonico opens in Verona with a performance of Vivaldi's La Fida Ninfa
  • February 3 – The Opéra-Comique opens in Paris
  • April 11 – Johann Sebastian Bach revives his St John Passion BWV 245 (BC D 2c) with some textual and instrumentational changes at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig
  • April–May – First performances, in London, of George Frideric Handel's Esther as an oratorio
  • December 7 – The first theatre is built on the site of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
  • Between 1732 and 1735 – Bach gives the Leipzig première of Georg Philipp Telemann's Passion oratorio Seliges Erwägen des Leidens und Sterbens Jesu Christi (TWV 5:2)

    • Classical music

  • Coffee Cantata – Johann Sebastian Bach
  • The Song of Deborah and Baruk (oratorio) – Maurice Greene
  • Six Sonatas for Cello – Benedetto Marcello
  • Lo frate 'nnamorato: Sinfonia in D major – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
  • Responsoria pro Hebdomada Sancta – Jan Dismas Zelenka
  • Acis and Galatea (pastoral opera) – George Frederic Handel

    • Opera

  • Giuseppe Bonno – Nigella e Nise
  • George Frideric Handel – Ezio; Sosarme
  • John Frederick Lampe – Britannia
  • Michel Montéclair – Jephté
  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – La Salustia

    • Publications

  • Musicalisches Lexicon, compiled by Johann Gottfried Walther

    • Births

  • January 2 – František Brixi, composer (died 1771)
  • February 18 - Johann Christian Kittel, composer (died 1809)
  • March 31 – Joseph Haydn, composer (died 1809)
  • May 17 - Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer (died 1817)
  • June 7 - Giuseppe Demachi, composer (died 1791)
  • June 21 - Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer, son of Johann Sebastian Bach (died 1795)
  • September 1 - Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie, composer (died 1781)
  • October 6 – John Broadwood, founder of firm of piano makers (died 1812)

    • Deaths

  • January 1 – Nicolo Grimaldi, castrato singer (born 1673)
  • February 17 – Louis Marchand, composer (born 1669)
  • March 5 - Joseph François Salomon, composer (born 1649)
  • July 20 – Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer
  • December 4 – John Gay, writer of musical theatre (born 1685)
  • December 14 - Johann Philipp Förtsch, composer (born 1652)
  • date unknown – Pier Francesco Tosi, castrato singer (born c.1653)

    • References

    1732 in music Wikipedia
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