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'''Pierre Robert''' (c. {{Circa|1618}} – 30 December 1699) was a French composer and early master of the French ''[[grand motet]]''.

Pierre Robert was educated at the boys choir, or ''maîtrise'', of [[Notre- Dame de Paris]] under the direction of [[Henry Frémart]], [[Jean Francois (musician)|Jean Francois]], and [[Cosset Veillot]] before being appointed master of music at the [[Senlis Cathedral of Senlis]] in 1643. In 1650, he went to the [[Cathedral of Chartres]] before returning to Senlis in March 1652. On April 28, April 1653, he was appointed music master of Notre Dame de Paris, replacing [[Valentin de Bournonville]]. where heRobert remained ten years as head of the ''maîtrise''.<ref>Sadie J.A. Companion to baroque music‎music 1998 p466p. 466</ref><ref>Sadie S. The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians, Volume 16‎16 1980 p66p. 66</ref><ref>Bianconi L. Music in the seventeenth century‎century 1987 p149p. 149</ref>

In 1663, [[Louis XIV]] chose him with [[Henry Du Mont]] to occupy one of the four posts of Assistant Master of the ''Chapelle Royale''. He initially filled this function in conjunction with [[Thomas Gobert]], [[Gabriel Expilly]] and Henry Du Mont, though Gobert and Expilly resigned in 1668. Du Mont and Robert developed the ''[[grand motet]]'', the characteristic genre of French baroque sacred music. Du Mont and Robert retired in 1682 when Louis XIV relocated the court to [[Palace of Versailles|Versailles]], and a competition was held to find four replacements among thirty five contenders,; the four chosen were [[Michel- Richard Delalande]], [[Pascal Collasse]] and two minor composers [[Nicolas Coupillet]], and [[Guillaume Minoret]]. Among those passed over were [[Paolo Lorenzani]], [[Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers]], [[Jean-Féry Rebel]], [[Henry Desmarets]] and [[Marc-Antoine Charpentier]] who withdrew from the competition because of illness.

== Works ==

* 2 contrapuntal motets, prior to 1663: ''Regina CaeliCoeli'' (2 versions), ''[[Tristis est anima mea (responsory)|Tristis est anima mea]]''

* 24 ''[[grands motets]]'' for the ''Chapelle du roi'' - published in Paris by [[Christophe Ballard]] in 1684.

== Discography ==

* Pierre Robert - Grands Motets : ''De profundis,'' ''Quare fremuerunt gentes,'' ''Te decet hymnus, Nisi Dominus,'' [[Musica Florea]] , [[Olivier ScneebeliSchneebeli]] 2009 K617

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[[Category:16251610s births]]

[[Category:French male classical composers]]

[[Category:French Baroque composers]]