Pierre Robert

Pierre Robert (° towards 1618 in Louvres? - † in 1699 with Paris), French type-setter. It made its musical studies with the control of Notre-Dame de Paris under the direction of Henry Frémart, Jean Veillot then François Cosset, before being appointed Master of the music of the cathedral of Senlis in 1646. It returned to Notre-Dame in 1653 to occupy the post of Master of music before integrating the Music of the king in 1663 by obtaining one of the four posts of under-Master of the Vault, jointly with Thomas Gobert, Gabriel Expilly and Henry Of the Mount. After the resignation of the two first, in 1668 and 1669, Pierre Robert and Henry Of the Mount developed the kind of large the motet, kind emblematic of the sacred music of the great century. The two under-Masters were in their turn to resign in 1683, at the moment when the court intalla in Versailles and where the king wished to insufflate a new dynamics in the creation of an official French style. Several musical testimonys of the various working lives of Pierre Robert reached us:

2 motets contrapuntic, former to 1663: Regina caeli (2 versions), Tristis east animated mea
24 motets with two choruses and instruments (or large motets) for the Vault of the king, published in Paris at Christophe Ballard in 1684
11 rises (or small motets) for the Vault in the king
3 anthems in plainsong on poems composed by Jean Santeul for the new breviary of Paris (1680)

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