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The '''Symphony No. 32''' in [[C major]] (Hoboken I/32) is a festive [[symphony]] by [[Joseph Haydn]].<ref>Antony Hodgson, ''The Music of Joseph Haydn: The Symphonies''. London: The Tantivy Press (1976): 58. "<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Symphony No.</span> 32 is remarkable for its sound. ... above all this is a Festive Symphony and the attack of the high brass with its percussive underpinning could only have been created by Haydn."</ref> The exact date of composition is unknown. It has been suggested by noted Haydn scholar [[H.C. Robbins Landon]] that it could have been written as early as 1757 and as late as 1763.<ref>[[H. C. Robbins Landon]], ''The Symphonies of Joseph Haydn''. London: Universal Edition & Rockliff (1955): 663. Landon casts a wider net, suggesting it could have been written as early as 1757 or as late as 1763.</ref> More recent scholars have suggested it was composed in either 1760 or 1761<ref name="apbrown30">Brown, A. Peter, ''The Symphonic Repertoire'' (Volume 2).  Indiana University Press ({{ISBN|025333487X}}), pp. 30 (2002).  Table reads:  Landon 55: c1760-65, Hoboken: by 1766, Landon 70s: c. 1759-60, Feder, New Grove: by 1766 (by 1760?), Gerlach: 1760/1761</ref>

==Movements==
The work is in four movements and is scored for 2 [[oboe]]s, [[bassoon]], 2 [[Natural horn|horn]]s, 2 [[trumpet]]s, [[timpani]], [[String section|strings]] and [[Basso continuo|continuo]].<ref>(Landon, 1955): 663. "2 ob., 2 cor. (C, prob. ''alto''), 2 clarini (trpt.), timp., str. (fag.), [ cemb. ]."</ref>

#[[Tempo#Italian tempo markings|Allegro]] molto, {{music|time|2|4}}
#[[Minuet|Menuet]] in C major and Trio in [[C minor]], {{music|time|3|4}}
#[[Tempo#Italian tempo markings|Adagio]] ma non troppo, {{music|time|2|4}} [[F major]]
#Finale: [[Tempo#Italian tempo markings|Presto]], {{music|time|3|8}}

The work is one of the few symphonies of the Classical era to place the Minuet second (others include Haydn's [[Symphony No. 37 (Haydn)|37th]] and [[Symphony No. 44 (Haydn)|44th]], and his brother [[Michael Haydn|Michael's]] [[Symphony No. 15 (Michael Haydn)|15th]] and [[Symphony No. 16 (Michael Haydn)|16th]]). The winds are dismissed for the slow movement. The {{music|time|3|8}} time signature for the finale is consistent with an early date of its composition.<ref>(Hodgson, 1976): 59</ref>

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