1832 in music

Events

• Spring – Elias Parish Alvars gives concerts in Constantinople before Sultan Mahmud II.
• February 26 – Chopin gave 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'.
• 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.

  Classical Music

• Charles-Valentin Alkan – Concerti da Camera nos. 1 and 2, Op. 10
• Hector Berlioz – Lelio
• 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
• Clara Schumann – Caprices en forme de valses, Op. 2
• Robert Schumann - Toccata in C, Op. 7
• 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 – Symphony in C

  Opera

• Gaetano Donizetti – L'elisir d'amore, May 12, Teatro della Canobbiana, Milan.
• Gaetano Donizetti – Sancia di Castiglia
• Fromental Halévy – La tentation''

  Popular music

• "Rock of Ages" by Augustus Montague Toplady and Thomas Hastings
• "The Bloom is on the Rye " by Edward Fitzball & Henry Rowley Bishop

  Publications

• Joseph Funk – A Compilation of Genuine Church Music

  Births

• January 17 – Marie Wieck, pianist, singer, piano teacher, and composer
• January 28 – Franz Wüllner, conductor and composer
• February 12 – Gustave Satter, pianist and composer
• February 15 – Nicolás Ruiz Espadero, pianist, composer, piano teacher and editor of the works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk
• March 4 – Ivan Melnikov, operatic baritone
• June 3 – Charles Lecocq, composer
• July 17 – August Söderman, composer
• August 3 – Ivan Zajc, composer, conductor, director and teacher
• August 7 – Julius Epstein, pianist
• September 9 – Petro Nishchynsky, composer
• September 14 – Giuseppe Capponi, operatic tenor
• September 20 – Johann Joseph Abert, composer
• October 1 – Henry Clay Work, US composer
• October 22
• *Leopold Damrosch, conductor
• *August Labitzky, composer and kapellmeister
• October 29 – Anders Heyerdahl, violinist and composer
• November 1 – Eleanora Ehrenbergů, operatic soprano
• November 11 – Paolo Giorza, composer
• date unknown – Julián Arcas, composer for guitar

  Deaths

• 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