1632 in music

Events

• December 29 – Just over halfway through a three-year contract as maestro di capella of Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo, Tarquinio Merula is dismissed for "indecency manifested towards several of his pupils."
• Opening of the Teatro delle Quattro Fontane in Rome.
• William Child becomes Master of the Choristers at St George's Chapel, Windsor.

  Publications

• Claudio Monteverdi – Second book of Scherzi musicali
• Giovanni Palazzotto e Tagliavia — First book of Messe brevi concertate a otto voci, Op. 10
• Walter Porter – Madrigales and Ayres

  Classical music

Opera

• Stefano Landi – Sant'Alessio : Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane, 18 February 1632.

  Births

• February 18 – Giovanni Battista Vitali, composer
• April 2 – Georg Caspar Wecker, organist and composer
• November 28 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, composer

  Deaths

• December 20 – Melchior Borchgrevinck, Danish musician, composer, and court Kapellmeister