Editing 1932 in music (section)

==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 (model)|Hilda Clark]], music hall singer (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)
*[[July 8]] – [[Samuel Castriota]], pianist, guitarist and composer (born 1885)
*[[July 22]]
**[[Hugh Blair (composer)|Hugh Blair]], organist and composer (born 1864)
**[[Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.|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]], 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''
**[[Giulia Novelli]], operatic mezzo-soprano (born 1859)
**[[Emanuele Nutile]], composer of Neapolitan songs (born 1862)