1585 in music
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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)