1632 in music

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The year 1632 in music involved some significant events.

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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."^[1]
Opening of the Teatro delle Quattro Fontane in Rome.
William Child becomes Master of the Choristers at St George's Chapel, Windsor.

Melchior Franck
- Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise) for four voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), a celebratory motet
- Christliche Dancksagung zu unserm Neugebornen Jesulein (Christian thanksgiving for our newborn baby Jesus) for seven and eight voices (Coburg: Johann Forckel), three Christmas motets
Claudio Monteverdi – Second book of Scherzi musicali (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano), a collection of arias and madrigals
Giovanni Palazzotto e Tagliavia — First book of Messe brevi concertate a otto voci, Op. 10
Walter Porter – Madrigales and Ayres

Stefano Landi – Il Sant'Alessio (with libretto by Giulio Rospigliosi): Palazzo Barberini alle Quattro Fontane, 18 February 1632.^[2]

December 20 – Melchior Borchgrevinck, Danish musician, composer, and court Kapellmeister (born c.1570)

^ Stephen Bonta, "Merula, Tarquinio", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Margaret Murata, "Landi, Stefano", New Grove Dictionary of Opera, new edition, edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers, 1998).