This article is about music-related events in 1832.
Spring – Elias Parish Alvars gives concerts in Constantinople before Sultan Mahmud II.
May 12 - Première of Gaetano Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at the Teatro della Canobbiana, Milan.
August 14 – Première of Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture is held in London.
September – Paris's Opéra-Comique moves from Salle Ventadour to Salle de la Bourse.
November 22 – Baritone Manuel García marries operatic soprano Cécile Eugénie Mayer.
Changes to American Army regulations make bandsmen regular soldiers, required to serve in battle if needed, establishes a position for bandmasters, and limits the size of regimental bands.
Charles-Valentin Alkan – Concerti da Camera nos. 1 and 2, Op. 10
Hector Berlioz - Lelio
Albert Lortzing – Singspiel Szenen aus Mozarts Leben
Felix Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture
Richard Wagner – Symphony in C
Gaetano Donizetti - L'elisir d'amore
Gaetano Donizetti – Sancia di Castiglia (opera seria, first performed at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, on November 4, 1832)
Fromental Halévy – La tentation
"Rock of Ages" (hymn) by Augustus Montague Toplady & Thomas Hastings
"The Bloom is on the Rye (My Pretty Jane)" by Edward Fitzball & Henry Rowley Bishop
Joseph Funk – A Compilation of Genuine Church Music
January 17 – Marie Wieck, pianist, singer, piano teacher, and composer (died 1916)
January 28 – Franz Wüllner, conductor and composer (died 1902)
February 12 – Gustave Satter, pianist and composer (died 1879)
February 15 – Nicolás Ruiz Espadero, pianist, composer, piano teacher and editor of the works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk (died 1890)
March 4 – Ivan Melnikov, operatic baritone (died 1906)
June 3 – Charles Lecocq, composer (died 1918)
July 17 – August Söderman, composer (died 1876)
August 3 – Ivan Zajc, composer, conductor, director and teacher (died 1914)
August 7 – Julius Epstein, pianist (died 1926)
September 9 – Petro Nishchynsky, composer (died 1896)
September 14 – Giuseppe Capponi, operatic tenor (died 1889)
September 20 – Johann Joseph Abert, composer (died 1915)
October 1 – Henry Clay Work, US composer (died 1884)
October 22
Leopold Damrosch, conductor (died 1885)
August Labitzky, composer and kapellmeister (died 1903)
October 29 – Anders Heyerdahl, violinist and composer (died 1918)
November 1 – Eleanora Ehrenbergů, operatic soprano (died 1912)
date unknown – Julián Arcas, composer for guitar (died 1882)
March 10 – Muzio Clementi, composer and pianist, 80
March 12 – Friedrich Kuhlau, composer, 55
March 23 – Wilhelm Würfel, pianist, conductor and composer, 41
May 15 – Carl Friedrich Zelter, conductor, composer and music teacher, 73
May 26 – François-Louis Perne, composer and musicologist, 59
June 10 – Manuel García, opera singer, 57
August 19 – George Aspull, pianist, singer and composer, 19
September 9 – Bernhard Klein, composer, 39
November 3 – Pietro Generali, composer, 59
December 12 – Andrea Nozzari, operatic tenor, 57
December 22 – Ishmail Spicer, composer, 72
December 31 – Adelaide Malanotte, operatic contralto, 47
date unknown – Philip Antony Corri, composer (b. 1784)
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