1732 in music

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

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^[1]
• December 7 – The first theatre is built on the site of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London^[2]
• 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

1. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
2. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.