1832 in music

• Spring – Elias Parish Alvars gives concerts in Constantinople before Sultan Mahmud II. • February 26 – Chopin gives his debut Paris concert at the Salle Pleyel. • April 20 – Franz Liszt attends a charity concert for the Parisian cholera epidemic given by Niccolò Paganini. He vows to become the 'Paganini of the Piano'. • May 14 – Première of Felix Mendelssohn's overture The Hebrides 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. • First Publication of "America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)" ==Classical music==

• Charles-Valentin Alkan – Concerti da Camera nos. 1 and 2, Op. 10 • William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto No.1, Op.1 • Hector Berlioz – Lélio, Cantata, premiered December 9 in Paris • Frederic Chopin • 5 Mazurkas Op. 7 • Mazurka in B-flat major 'Wołowska', B.73 • 3 Nocturnes Op. 9 • Johann Baptist Cramer – Piano Quintet No.3 • Adolf Friedrich Hesse – Fantasie für die Orgel zu 4 Händen, Op.35 • Friedrich Kuhlau • La clochette, Op. 121 • Allegro pathetique for Piano 4-hands, Op. 123 • Adagio and Rondo for Piano 4-Hands, Op. 124 • Albert Lortzing – Singspiel Szenen aus Mozarts Leben • Felix Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture • Ignaz Moscheles • Piano Concerto No.5, Op.87 • Grand septuor, Op.88 • Ivan Padovec – Variations, Op.4 (based on a Schubert waltz) • Ferdinand Ries • Grande ouverture et marche triomphale, Op.172 • Piano Concerto No.9, Op.177 • Clara Schumann – Caprices en forme de valses, Op. 2 • Robert Schumann - Toccata in C, Op. 7 • Bedřich Smetana – Galop (Kvapík) in D major, JB 2:1 • Johann Strauss, Sr. • Cotillons, Op. 50 • Bajaderen-Walzer, Op. 53 • Contratänze, Op. 54 • Alexandra-Walzer, Op. 56 • Sigismond Thalberg – 6 Deutsche Lieder, Op. 8 • Richard Wagner • Polonaise in D major, WWV 23 • 2 Entreactes tragiques, WWV 25 • Concert Overture No.2 in C major, WWV 27 (dated March 3-17) • Symphony in C, WWV 29 ==Opera==

• Daniel François Esprit Auber – Le Serment, premiered October 1 in Paris • Gaetano Donizetti • ''L'elisir d'amore, May 12, Teatro della Canobbiana, Milan.'' • Sancia di Castiglia (opera seria, first performed at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, on November 4, 1832) • Fromental Halévy – La tentation • Albert Lortzing – Der Pole und sein Kind (premiered October 11 in Osnabrück ==Popular music==

• "The Bloom is on the Rye (My Pretty Jane)" by Edward Fitzball & Henry Rowley Bishop ==Publications==

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Published posthumously: Studien im Generalbass, Contrapunkt und in der Compositionslehre • Joseph Funk – A Compilation of Genuine Church Music • Nicola Vaccai – Metodo pratico de canto ==Births==

• January 1 – Aloys Kunc, pedagogue and composer (died 1895) • January 17 – Marie Wieck, pianist, singer, piano teacher, and composer (died 1916) • January 27 – Lewis Carroll, lyricist (died 1898) • 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 1 – Friedrich Grützmacher, cellist (died 1903) • March 4 – Ivan Melnikov, operatic baritone (died 1906) • March 7 – William Busnach, librettist (died 1907) • April 14 – Wilhelm Busch, lyricist (died 1908) • April 15 – Gabriel Baille, composer (died 1909) • June 3 – Charles Lecocq, composer (died 1918) • July 2 – Félix Henri Duquesnel, lyricist (died 1915) • June 15 – Sigmund Schlesinger, composer (died 1918) • July 17 – August Söderman, composer (died 1876) • July 24 – Johann Lauterbach, composer (died • August 3 • Étienne Rey, composer (died 1923) • Ivan Zajc, composer, conductor, director and teacher (died 1914) • August 7 – Julius Epstein, pianist (died 1926) • August 15 – Ernst Naumann, organist and composer (died 1910) • 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 7 – Charles Crozat Converse, composer (died 1918) • October 14 – Heinrich Armin Rattermann, lyricist and translator (died 1923) • October 22 • Leopold Damrosch, conductor (died 1885) • Robert Eitner, musicologist (died 1905) • August Labitzky, composer and kapellmeister (died 1903) • October 25 – Julián Arcas, composer (died 1882) • October 29 – Anders Heyerdahl, violinist and composer (died 1918) • November 1 – Eleanora Ehrenbergů, operatic soprano (died 1912) • November 3 – Henry Behning, Sr., piano maker (died 1905) • November 11 – Paolo Giorza, composer (died 1914) • November 12 – John Troutbeck, musicologist (died 1899) • December 24 – Manuel Del Palacio, lyricist (died 1906) • date unknown – Julián Arcas, composer for guitar (died 1882) ==Deaths==

• February 15 – Hartenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer (born 1746) • March 10 – Muzio Clementi, composer and pianist, 80 • March 12 – Friedrich Kuhlau, composer, 45 (born 1786) • March 22 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, lyricist and librettist (born 1749) • 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 • July 25 – Sébastien Demar, composer (born 1763) • July 28 – Joseph Schreyvogel, music publisher (born 1768) • August 19 – George Aspull, pianist, singer and composer, 19 • August 31 – Auguste Kreutzer, composer (born 1778) • September 9 – Bernhard Klein, composer, 39 • September 21 – Sir Walter Scott, lyricist (born 1771) • November 3 – Pietro Generali, composer, 59 • November 15 – Konrad von Schmidt-Phiseldeck, lyricist (born 1770) • 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) • Isabelle de Montolieu, lyricist and translator (born 1751) ==References==