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

• 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^{[citation needed]}
• 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)
• Michel Corrette begins producing his 25 Concertos Comiques, released until 1773.^[3]

• Michel Blavet – 6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 2
• Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
  • 5 Sonates en trio suivies d'un concerto, Op. 37
  • 2 Sérénades en trois parties, Op. 39
  • 6 Sonates suivies d'un nombre de pièces, Op. 40
• Esprit Philippe Chédeville – Recueils de vaudevilles, menuets, contredanses et autres airs choisis pour la musette (Paris)
• Philibert Delavigne – Sonates pour la Musette, Vielle, Flute-a-bec, Traversiere, Hautbois etc. avec la Basse (6 Sonatas), Op. 2 (Paris)
• Francesco Geminiani – 6 Concertos, Opp. 3 and 4
• George Frideric Handel – Solos for a German Flute a Hoboy or Violin with a Thorough Bass for the Harpsichord or Bass Violin Compos'd by Mr. Handel (London: John Walsh) (second edition: "Note: This is more Corect [sic] than the former Edition")
• Pietro Locatelli – 12 Flute Sonatas, Op. 2
• Johann Joachim Quantz – 6 Sonatas for two flutes, Op. 2
• Georg Philipp Telemann
  • 36 Fantaisies pour le clavessin, TWV 33:1-36
  • Continuation des Sonates Méthodiques, TWV 41

• Giovanni Bononcini – 12 Trio Sonatas
• Antonio Caldara
  • La morte d'Abel
  • Sedecia
• Giovanni Battista Ferrandini – 18 Cantatas, D-Dl Mus.3037-K-1
• Lodovico Giustini – 12 Sonate da cimbalo di piano e forte, Op .1
• Christoph Graupner
  • Trio Sonata in D minor, GWV 207
  • Flute Concerto in D major, GWV 311
• Maurice Greene – The Song of Deborah and Baruk (oratorio)
• George Frederic Handel
  • Acis and Galatea (revised)
  • Esther, HWV 50b
  • Keyboard Sonata in G major, HWV 579
• Benedetto Marcello – Six Sonatas for Cello
• Giovanni Batisti Pergolesi – Stabat Mater, P. 77
• Nicola Antonio Porpora – Il martirio di S. Giovanni Nepomuceno

• Tomaso Albinoni – Ardelinda
• Giuseppe Bonno – Nigella e Nise
• Antonio Caldara – Adriano in Siria
• Geminiano Giacomelli – Alessandro Severo
• George Frideric Handel
  • Ezio
  • Sosarme
• Johann Adolf Hasse
  • Il Demetrio
  • Euristero
  • Issipile
• John Frederick Lampe – Britannia
• Leo Leonardo – Demetrio
• Michel Montéclair – Jephté
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
  • Lo frate 'nnamorato
  • La Salustia
• Nicola Antonio Porpora – Germanico in Germania
• Georg Reutter – Alessandro il Grande
• Giovanni Battista Sammartini – Memet
• Giuseppe Sellitto – Nitocri
• Antonio Vivaldi – La fida ninfa

• Musicalisches Lexicon, compiled by Johann Gottfried Walther
• Dissertation sur les différentes méthodes d'accompagnement by Jean-Phillipe Rameau
• Essai sur le bon goût en musique – Nicolas Racot de Grandval

• January 2 – František Brixi, composer (died 1771)
• January 24 – Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
• February 18 – Johann Christian Kittel, composer (died 1809)
• February 19 – Richard Cumberland, librettist (died 1811)
• February 21 – William Falconer, poet (died 1769)
• March 31 – Joseph Haydn, composer (died 1809)
• May 17 – Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer (died 1817)
• June 7
  • Nicolas-Médard Audinot, librettist and actor (died 1801)
  • 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)
• Date unknown – Heinrich Ernst Grosmann, composer (died 1811)

• January 1 – Nicolo Grimaldi, castrato singer (born 1673)
• February 17 – Louis Marchand, composer (born 1669)
• March – Joseph François Salomon, composer (born 1649)
• July 20 – Francesco Bartolomeo Conti, composer
• November 15 – Girolamo Frigimelica Roberti, librettist (born 1653)
• 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)