1832 In Music

This article is about music-related events in 1832.

Events

*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 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

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