1932 in Music - Classical Music

Classical Music

• 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
• Arthur Bliss – A Colour Symphony
• 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 )
  • Little Suite, for chamber orchestra, Op. 11a
• Sergei Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 55
• 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 (act3 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, vn, pf, 1932 (S 1933)
  • 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)
• Ivan Wyschnegradsky – Prelude and Fugue, for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart, Op. 21