The year 1635 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Composer and poet Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg marries Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
• Composer John Wilson enters the King's Musick as a lutenist.^[1]

Classical music

• Giovanni Battista Abatessa – Cespuglio di varii fiori..., a collection of songs with alfabetto notation for the guitar, published in Orvieto
• Girolamo Frescobaldi – Fiori musicali (Musical Flowers), a collection of organ music
• Carlo Milanuzzi – Eighth book of ariose vaghezze for solo voice and accompaniment, Op. 18 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
• Stefano Pasino – Masses for four voices, Op. 4 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)

Opera

• Virgilio Puccitelli (attr.) – Giuditta

Births

• June 3 – Philippe Quinault, dramatist and opera librettist (d. 1688)

Deaths

• June 14 – Christian Erbach, organist and composer (b. c. 1568)
• October 10 – Johann Ulrich Steigleder, organist and composer (b. 1593)
• date unknown
  • Manuel Rodrigues Coelho, organist and composer (born c.1555)