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1932 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1932.

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Specific genres

Events

  • 1932 marks the lowest trough the recording industry experiences during the Great Depression. In the United States, revenues have dropped from 104 million units in 1927 to 6 million in 1932.
  • January 14 – Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G is premièred in Paris.
  • February 3–9 – Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record two medleys for Victor at rpm. Over half a century later it is discovered that two microphone-to-cutting table chains had been used, and that the session exists in "accidental stereo."
  • March 15 – The BBC Dance Orchestra in the UK first broadcasts under the direction of Henry Hall.
  • May 1 – The music to John Alden Carpenter's ballet Skyscrapers is recorded by the Victor Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Nathaniel Shilkret; in addition to be being issued as six sides on 78 rpm discs, the recording is made available as one of Victor's early rpm LP releases.
  • July 1 – The very young Eddie Duchin and his Central Park Casino Orchestra, and the Three X Sisters (aka Hamilton Sisters & Fordyce), record "The Clouds Will Soon Roll By" for Columbia records.
  • July 7 – Benny Carter's orchestra first records. Crown Records rejects all but one title, "Tell All You Daydreams to Me."
  • August 15 – First successful electrical re-recording, directed by Nathaniel Shilkret, of an orchestral accompaniment of a Victor recording by Enrico Caruso.
  • October 2 – Charles Seeger is divorced from his first wife, Constance de Clyver Edson. He subsequently marries composer Ruth Crawford.
  • October 7 – The London Philharmonic Orchestra, recently founded by Thomas Beecham, gives its first public concert.
  • October 13 – Isham Jones and the Three X Sisters record at New York Studio No.1. Several songs utilized for RCA Victor are labeled "experimental" as this blues era band-leader is fusing new arrangements, an idea that would later influence part of the Swing era.
  • October 19 – Frankie Laine and Ruthie Smith set the all-time dance marathon record of 3,501 hours (145 days) at the Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
  • October 31 – Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 5 is premiered in Berlin.
  • December 13 – Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra make their last record date for Victor. It becomes a singular example of early swing music.
  • Sydney Symphony established.

Top [[blues]] recordings

  • "Worrying You Off My Mind" – Big Bill Broonzy
  • "Mistreatin Mama" – Big Bill Broonzy
  • "How You Want It Done" – Big Bill Broonzy
  • "Searching the Desert For the Blues" – Blind Willie McTell
  • "Winnie The Wailer" – Lonnie Johnson

Classical music

  • Henk Badings
    • Symphony for 16 soloists
    • Symphony No. 2
  • Arnold Bax
    • Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
    • Sinfonietta
    • Sonata No. 4, for piano
    • Summer Music, for orchestra (revised version)
    • Symphony No. 5
    • "Watching the Needleboats", for voice and piano (text by James Joyce)
  • Arthur Benjamin – Violin Concerto
  • Marc Blitzstein
    • The Condemned, choral opera in one act
    • Serenade, for string quartet
  • John Cage – Greek Ode, for voice and piano (text from Aeschylus' The Persians)
  • Carlos Chávez
    • Antígona (incidental music for the adaptation by Jean Cocteau of the tragedy by Sophocles)
    • Caballos de vapor (H.P., sinfonía de baile)
    • String Quartet No. 2
    • Tierra mojada (for mixed choir, oboe, and cor anglais (text by R. López Velarde)
    • "Todo", for voice and piano (text by R. López Velarde)
  • Henry Cowell
    • Expressivo, for piano
    • Four Continuations, for string orchestra
    • Reel (Lilt of the Reel), for small orchestra
    • Rhythm Study, for piano
    • Two Appositions, for piano
    • Two Appositions: One Movement for Orchestra
  • Ruth Crawford Seeger
    • Ricercari (2), for voice and piano (text by H. T. Tsiang)
    • Songs (3), for alto voice, oboe, percussion, piano, and optional orchestra (texts by Carl Sandburg)
  • Jean Françaix – Piano Concerto
  • Gunnar de Frumerie – Variations and Fugue
  • George Gershwin – Cuban Overture, for orchestra
  • Peggy Glanville-Hicks
    • Fantasy, for solo violin
    • "He Reproves the Curlew", for voice and piano (text by William Butler Yeats)
    • Prelude for a Pensive Pupil, for piano
    • "Sheiling Song", for voice and piano (text by F. MacLeod)
    • "They Are Not Long", for voice and piano (text by Ernest Dowson)
    • "To the Moon", for voice and piano (text by Percy Bysshe Shelley)
    • "A Widow Bird", for voice and piano (text by Percy Bysshe Shelley)
  • Percy Grainger – Handel in the Strand
  • Camargo Guarnieri – String Quartet No. 1
  • Alois Hába
    • Children's Choruses (5), in quarter tones, Op. 42 (texts by V. Nezval)
    • Children's Choruses, in quarter tones, Op. 43
    • Fantazie No. 2, for nonet, Op. 41
    • Pracující den, for male choir, in quarter tones, Op. 45 (text by J. Hora)
  • Jascha Heifetz – arrangement of Grigoraş Dinicu's Hora staccato
  • Gustav Holst
    • "If 'twer the Time of Lilies", for two-part choir and piano, H187
    • Jazz-Band Piece
    • Jig, for piano, H179
  • John Ireland – A Downland Suite
  • Dmitri Kabalevsky – Symphony No. 1
  • Ernst Krenek – Kantate von der Vergänglichkeit des Irdischen, for soprano, mixed choir, and piano, Op. 72 (texts by P. Fleming, A. Gryphius, and other 17th-century German writers)
  • László Lajtha – Cello Sonata
  • Nikolai Myaskovsky – Symphony No. 11
  • Harry Partch – "The Lord Is My Shepherd" (Psalm XXIII), for voice and adapted viola
  • Paul Pisk
    • Campanella, cantata for voice and orchestra, Op. 28 (text after 11 poems of the Monk [Luitpold])
    • Little Suite, for chamber orchestra, Op. 11a
  • Sergei Prokofiev –
    • Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 55
    • Sonata for Two Violins in C major, Op. 56
  • Ottorino Respighi – Huntingtower, for large wind band, P. 173
  • Silvestre Revueltas
    • Alcancías, for orchestra
    • Colorines, for orchestra
    • Música de feria (String Quartet No. 4)
    • Three Pieces for violin and piano
  • Miklós Rózsa – Bagatelles for Piano, Op. 12
  • Arnold Schoenberg
    • Mirror Canon, for string quartet
    • Mirror Canon in four parts, for Carl Moll
    • Moses und Aron, opera in 3 acts (Act 3 not composed)
  • William Schuman
    • "God's World", for voice and piano (text by Edna St. Vincent Millay)
    • Potpourri, for orchestra
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    • Hamlet (incidental music for the play by William Shakespeare), Op. 32
    • Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, opera in four acts, Op. 29
    • Six Romances, for tenor and orchestra, Op. 21
    • Twenty-Four Preludes, for piano, Op. 34
    • Vstrechnïy (music for the film directed by F. Ermler and Yutkevich), Op. 33
  • Igor Stravinsky
    • Chants du rossignol et Marche chinoise, for violin and piano (arranged from The Nightingale)
    • Danse russe, for violin and piano
    • Duo concertant, for violin and piano
    • Scherzo, for violin and piano [arr. from The Firebird]
    • Suite italienne, for cello and piano (arranged from Pulcinella)
    • Suite italienne, for violin and piano (arranged from Pulcinella)
    • Simvol verï, for SATB choir
  • Virgil Thomson
    • String Quartet No. 2
    • Symphony No. 2 (arrangement for piano, four hands)
  • Joaquín Turina
    • Homenaje a Tárrega, Op. 69, for guitar
    • Silhouettes, Op. 70, for piano
    • Mujeres españolas, Series 2 Op. 73, for piano
    • Vocalizaciones, Op. 74, for soprano and piano
  • Ivan Wyschnegradsky – Prelude and Fugue, for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart, Op. 21

Opera

  • Amy Beach – Cabildo (not performed until 1947)
  • Ottorino Respighi – Maria egiziaca
  • Pietro Mascagni – Pinotta
  • Arnold Schoenberg – Moses und Aron (first staged in 1957)
  • Erwin Schulhoff – Flammen
  • Kurt Weill – Die Bürgschaft

Film

  • Frank Churchill – Santa's Workshop (film)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich – Counterplan (film)
  • Max Steiner – Bird of Paradise (1932 film)
  • Max Steiner – The Most Dangerous Game (1932 film)
  • Max Steiner – Symphony of Six Million

[[Jazz]]

Main article: 1932 in jazz

[[Musical theater]]

  • After Dinner London revue opened at the Gaiety Theatre on October 21
  • L'Auberge Du Cheval Blanc Paris production
  • Ball im Savoy (music by Paul Abraham, libretto by Alfred Grünwald and Fritz Löhner-Beda). Berlin production
  • Ballyhoo (Music: William Waller Lyrics: Robert Nesbitt) London revue opened at the Comedy Theatre on December 22
  • Casanova London production
  • The Cat and the Fiddle London production opened at the Palace Theatre on March 4 and ran for 329 performances
  • The Dubarry
    • London production opened at His Majesty's Theatre on April 14 and ran for 398 performances
    • Broadway production opened at George M. Cohan's Theatre on November 22 and ran for 87 performances
  • Face the Music Broadway revue opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on February 17 and ran for 165 performances
  • Gay Divorce Broadway production opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on November 29 and transferred to the Shubert Theatre on January 16, 1933, for a total run of 248 performances
  • Men Ken Lebn Nor Men Lost Nisht (I Would If I Could) New York City production at the Parkway Theatre in Brooklyn (includes the song "Bei Mir Bistu Shein")
  • Music in the Air Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on November 8 and ran for 342 performances
  • Out of the Bottle London production opened at the Hippodrome on June 11 and ran for 109 performances
  • Over She Goes London revue opened at the Alhambra Theatre on August 27.
  • Show Boat Broadway revival opened at the Casino Theatre on 50th Street http://www.glopad.org/pi/en/image/1003422 on May 19 and ran for 180 performances
  • Take a Chance Broadway production opened at the Apollo Theatre on November 26 and ran for 243 performances
  • Tell Her the Truth London production opened at the Saville Theatre on June 14 and ran for 234 performances
  • Wild Violets opened at the Theatre Royal on October 31 and ran for 291 performances
  • Words and Music London revue (Noël Coward) opened at the Adelphi Theatre on September 16.

[[Musical film]]s

  • Carmen, starring Marguerite Namara
  • Girl Crazy, starring Dorothy Lee, Robert Quillan, Mitzi Green and Kitty Kelly
  • Goodnight, Vienna, starring Jack Buchanan and Anna Neagle
  • Gräfin Mariza, starring Dorothea Wieck, Hubert Marischka and Charlotte Ander
  • Grün ist die Heide, starring Camilla Spira, Peter Voß and Theodor Loos
  • Kiki, starring Anny Ondra and Hermann Thimig and directed by Carl Lamac, with music by Rolf Marbot and lyrics by Bert Reisfeld
  • Looking on the Bright Side, starring Gracie Fields
  • Love Me Tonight, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald
  • The Maid of the Mountains, starring Nancy Brown and Harry Welchman
  • The Midshipmaid, starring Jessie Matthews
  • Monte Carlo Madness, starring Sari Maritza and Hans Albers and featuring the Comedian Harmonists
  • One Hour with You, starring Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier, Genevieve Tobin and Charles Ruggles
  • Pergolesi, starring Elio Steiner, Dria Paola and Tina Lattanzi, directed by Guido Brignone, with music by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
  • The Phantom President, starring George M. Cohan, Claudette Colbert and Jimmy Durante. Directed by Norman Taurog
  • Sehnsucht 202, starring Luise Rainer
  • Unshudat al-Fu'ad, starring Nadra

Births

  • January 19 – Polibio Mayorga, Ecuadorian songwriter, accordionist, and keyboardist
  • January 26 – Coxsone Dodd, record producer (d. 2004)
  • January 31
    • Rick Hall, record producer (d. 2018)
    • Ottilie Patterson, singer, "the godmother of British blues" (d. 2011)
  • February 8 – John Williams, film music composer (Jaws)
  • February 11 – Jerome Lowenthal, American pianist
  • February 16 – Harry Goz, musical theatre star (d. 2003)
  • February 24 – Michel Legrand, composer (d. 2019)
  • February 26 – Johnny Cash, country singer (d. 2003)
  • March 4 – Miriam Makeba, singer (d. 2008)
  • March 15 – Arif Mardin, record producer (d. 2006)
  • March 21 – Joseph Silverstein, violinist (d. 2015)
  • April 1 – Debbie Reynolds, American actress and singer (d. 2016)
  • April 8 – John Kinsella, Irish composer (d. 2021)
  • April 9 – Carl Perkins, American rockabilly singer (d. 1998)
  • April 10 – Kishori Amonkar, Indian classical singer (d. 2017)
  • April 12 – Tiny Tim, American singer and ukulele player (d. 1996)
  • April 14 – Loretta Lynn, American country singer (Coal Miner's Daughter) (d. 2022)
  • April 26 – Francis Lai, French songwriter and film composer (d. 2018)
  • April 27 – Maxine Brown, American country singer (The Browns) (d. 2019)
  • April 28 – Marek Kopelent, Czech composer (d. 2023)
  • May 19 – Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
  • May 30 – Pauline Oliveros, American electronic music composer (d. 2016)
  • June 7 – Tina Brooks, American saxophonist (d. 1974)
  • June 19 – Ernest Ranglin, Jamaican guitarist
  • June 21 – Lalo Schifrin, Argentine-born American film composer (d. 2025)
  • June 27
    • Anna Moffo, American operatic soprano (d. 2006)
    • Hugh Wood, British composer (d. 2021)
  • July 1 – Adam Harasiewicz, pianist
  • July 11 – Roquel Billy Davis, singer, songwriter and record producer (d. 2004)
  • July 12 – Eddy Wally (Eduard Van De Walle), Flemish Schlager music singer (d. 2016)
  • July 13 – Per Nørgård, Danish composer (d. 2025)
  • July 16 – John Chilton, English jazz trumpeter (d. 2016)
  • July 19 – Buster Benton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1996)
  • August 2 – John Cohen, folk musician and photographer (d. 2019)
  • August 23 – Sinn Sisamouth, singer-songwriter, "the King of Khmer music" (d. 1976)
  • September 8 – Patsy Cline, country singer (d. 1963)
  • September 25 – Glenn Gould, classical pianist (d. 1982)
  • September 28 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter (k. 1973)
  • October 9 – Alfons Kontarsky, pianist (d. 2010)
  • November 1 – Joaquín Achúcarro, pianist
  • November 10 – Paul Bley, jazz pianist (d. 2016)
  • November 15 – Clyde McPhatter, (The Drifters) (d. 1972)
  • November 21 – Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Danish composer (d. 2016)
  • November 28 – Ethel Ennis, jazz singer (d. 2019)
  • November 30 – Bob Moore, bassist (Elvis, Roy Orbison) (d. 2021)
  • December 3 – Corry Brokken, Dutch singer, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1957 (d. 2016)
  • December 5 – Little Richard (Penniman), rock singer, songwriter, pianist and actor (d. 2020)
  • December 9 – Donald Byrd, jazz trumpeter (d. 2013)
  • December 12 – Charlie Rich, country singer (d. 1995)
  • December 15 – Jesse Belvin, singer, pianist and songwriter (d. 1960)
  • December 20 – Leslie Adams, American composer and educator
  • December 28 – Dorsey Burnette, Rockabilly pioneer (d. 1979)

Deaths

  • January 16 – Joseph Kekuku, inventor of the steel guitar (born 1874)
  • January 27 – Mortimer Wilson, composer (born 1876)
  • February 22 – Johanna Gadski, opera singer (born 1872) (car accident)
  • March 1 – Frank Teschemacher, jazz musician (born 1905) (car accident)
  • March 3 – Eugen d'Albert, pianist and composer (born 1864)
  • March 6 – John Philip Sousa, composer (born 1854)
  • March 18 – Chauncey Olcott, songwriter (born 1858)
  • March 19 – Richard Specht, musicologist (born 1870)
  • April 2 – Hugo Kaun, composer and conductor (born 1863)
  • May 5 – Hilda Clark, soprano (born 1872)
  • May 6 – Roméo Beaudry, pianist, composer and record producer (born 1882)
  • May 9 – Emil Hertzka, music publisher (born 1869)
  • May 20 – Bubber Miley, jazz trumpeter (born 1903)
  • May 28 – Pascual Contursi, singer and guitarist (born 1888)
  • June 7 – Emil Paur, conductor (born 1855)
  • June 21 – Giulia Novelli, operatic mezzo-soprano (born 1859)
  • July 8 – Samuel Castriota, pianist, guitarist and composer (born 1885)
  • July 22
    • Hugh Blair, organist and composer (born 1864)
    • Florenz Ziegfeld, Broadway impresario (born 1867)
  • August 16 – Pietro Floridia, composer and conductor (born 1860)
  • September 13 – Julius Röntgen, composer (born 1855)
  • September 14 – Jean Cras, composer (born 1879)
  • September 26 – Pierre De Geyter, composer of The Internationale (born 1848)
  • October 19 – Arthur Friedheim, pianist (born 1859)
  • October 21 – Al Hopkins, country musician (born 1889)
  • October 31 – Hermine Finck, opera singer (born 1872)
  • November 23 – Percy Pitt, organist and conductor (born 1870)
  • November 27 – Evelyn Preer, actress and blues singer (born 1896)
  • November 28 – Hubert de Blanck, pianist and composer (born 1856)
  • December 1 – Amadeo Vives, composer (born 1871)
  • December 24 – Eyvind Alnæs, Norwegian pianist, organist and composer (born 1872)
  • December 25 – Ernst Rolf, actor and singer (born 1891)
  • December 26 – Dina Barberini, operatic soprano (born 1862)
  • date unknown – Emanuele Nutile, composer of Neapolitan songs (born 1862)

References

References

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  2. (1932-03-11). "The Man Behind the New BBC Dance Band". Radio Times.
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  5. "Columbia matrix W152137. In a shanty in old Shanty Town / Ted Lewis and his Band - Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  6. "BRUNSWICK 78rpm numerical listing discography: 6000 - 6500".
  7. "Victor matrix BRC-71205. Paradise / Leo Reisman Orchestra ; Frances Maddux - Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  8. "Victor matrix BRC-70940. The night was made for love / Leo Reisman Orchestra - Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  9. "Victor 22869 (Black label (popular) 10-in. double-faced) - Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  10. "Victor matrix BVE-70636. All of me / Mildred Bailey ; Paul Whiteman Orchestra - Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  11. "Victor 22879 (Black label (popular) 10-in. double-faced) - Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  12. "Columbia matrix W152092. All of me / Louis Armstrong Orchestra - Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  13. "Victor matrix BRC-69910. Home / Peter Van Steeden Orchestra ; Dick Robertson".
  14. "Victor 22868 (Black label (popular) 10-in. double-faced)".
  15. "Victor 23651 (Black label (popular) 10-in. double-faced) - Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  16. "Victor matrix BSHQ-73029. In a shanty in old Shanty Town / Chick Bullock ; Ted Black Orchestra".
  17. "Victor 24050 (Black label (popular) 10-in. double-faced)".
  18. "Victor matrix BS-73581. Let's put out the lights (And go to sleep) / Paul Whiteman Orchestra ; Ramona - Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  19. "Victor 24140 (Black label (popular) 10-in. double-faced) - Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  20. "Columbia matrix W152032. River, stay 'way from my door / Guy Lombardo ; Royal Canadians ; Kate Smith - Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  21. "Victor matrix BRC-72287. Lullaby of the leaves / George Olsen and his Music - Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  22. "Victor 22998 (Black label (popular) 10-in. double-faced) - Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  23. "Victor matrix BS-73355. Say it isn't so / George Olsen and his Music ; Paul Small - Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  24. "Victor 24124 (Black label (popular) 10-in. double-faced) - Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  25. "Columbia matrix W152312. Brother, can you spare a dime? / Connecticut Yankees ; Rudy Vallée - Discography of American Historical Recordings".
  26. "Victor matrix PBVE-68346. One hour with you / Cocoanut Grove Orchestra ; Jimmie Grier ; Donald Novis".
  27. "Victor 22971 (Black label (popular) 10-in. double-faced)".
  28. "Columbia matrix W152257. Cambiaré mi plan / Connecticut Yankees ; Rudy Vallée - Discography of American Historical Recordings".
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