1585 in music

Events

Publications

• Giovanni Bassano – Ricercate, passagi, et cadentie, a collection of examples of instrumental ornamentation.

Classical music

• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Missa tu es pastor ovium

Births

• October 8 (JC) – Heinrich Schütz, German composer (died 1672)
• date unknown
• Johann Grabbe, composer (died 1655)
• Wojciech Dębołęcki, Franciscan monk, writer and composer (died 1646)
• probable - Domenico Allegri, singer and composer (died 1629)

Deaths

• August 30 - Andrea Gabrieli, organist and composer (born c.1532)
• November 23 - Thomas Tallis, church musician and composer (born 1505)
• November 28 - Hernando Franco, composer (born 1532)