1832 in music

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Classical Music
3 Popular music
4 Births
5 Deaths

Events

Classical Music

Felix Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture first performed in London

Popular music

"Rock of Ages" (hymn) by Augustus Montague Toplady & Thomas Hastings
"The Bloom is on the Rye (My Pretty Jane)" by Edward Fitzball & Henry Rowley Bishop

Births

October 1 - Henry Clay Work, US composer

Deaths

March 10 - Muzio Clementi
March 12 - Friedrich Kuhlau
October 18 - Othon Joseph Vandenbroek