1586 in music

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Events

Publications

Lodovico Agostini – Le lagrime del peccatore (The Tears of the Sinner), fourth book for six voices, Op. 12 (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
Felice Anerio – First book of canzonettas for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amandino)
Giammateo Asola
- Psalms (Venice: Ricciardo Amadino), also includes a Te Deum
- Missae octonis compositae tonis for four voices (Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
- Officium defunctorum for four voices (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
Lodovico Balbi – Cappriccios for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Giulio Belli – First book of masses for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Camillo Cortellini – Third book of madrigals for five voices (Ferrara: Vittorio Baldini)
Jacobus Gallus – Opus musicum, volume 1 (Prague: Georg Nigrinus).
Ruggiero Giovannelli – First book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Marc'Antonio Ingegneri
- First book of motets for four voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- First book of madrigals for six voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Simon Bar Jona Madelka – Seven Penitential Psalms for five voices (Altdorf: Nikolaus Knorr)
Jacques Mauduit – Chansonnettes mesurées de Jan-Antoine de Baïf for four voices (Paris: Le Roy & Ballard)
Rinaldo del Mel – Second book of madrigaletti for three voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Philippe de Monte – Eleventh book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Giovanni Maria Nanino
- Motets for three and five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
- Third book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Lucas Osiander the Elder – Fünfftzig Geistliche Lieder und Psalmen (Fifty sacred songs and psalms) for four voices (Nuremberg: Katharina Gerlach)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Second book of madrigals for four voices
Nicola Parma – Sacrae cantiones..., book two (Venice: Giacomo Vincenti & Ricciardo Amadino)
Costanzo Porta – Fourth book of madrigals for five voices (Venice: Angelo Gardano)
Giaches de Wert – Eighth book of madrigals for five voices

Compositions

Anthony Holborne – The Countess of Pembroke's Funerals

Births

January 20 – Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (died 1630)
July 1 – Claudio Saracini, lutenist, singer and composer (died 1630)

Probable

Andrea Falconieri, composer (died 1653)

Deaths

August 27 – George de La Hèle, Franco-Flemish composer
November – Bernardino de Figueroa, composer (born c. 1510)