Wikipedia

Pierre Robert (composer): Difference between revisions

Browse history interactively
← Previous edit
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
→External links: add category using AWB
Clean up
 
(16 intermediate revisions by 9 users not shown)
Line 1:
'''Pierre Robert''' (ca. {{Circa|1618}} – 30 December 1699) was a French composer and early master of the French ''[[grand motet]]''.
 
== Biography ==
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 28 April 1653, he was appointed music master of Notre Dame de Paris, replacing [[Valentin de Bournonville]]. Robert remained ten years as head of the ''maîtrise''.<ref>Sadie J.A. Companion to baroque music 1998 p. 466</ref><ref>Sadie S. The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians, Volume 16 1980 p. 66</ref><ref>Bianconi L. Music in the seventeenth century 1987 p. 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.
Line 9 ⟶ 10:
==Works==
* 2 contrapuntal motets, prior to 1663: ''Regina Coeli'' (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.
**''De profundis''
**''Quare fremuerunt gentes''
**''Te decet hymnus''
**''Nisi Dominus''
**Bonum est confiteri Domine <ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Andrée Dagenais and Thomas Leconte|date=|title=Motets pour La Chapelle du Roy, Vol. 1|url=https://boutique.cmbv.fr/fr/motets-pour-la-chapelle-du-roy-vol-1-expodcast1|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=boutique.cmbv.fr}}</ref>
**Conserva me Domine <ref name=":0" />
**Veniat dilectus meus <ref name=":0" />
**Laudate Dominum <ref name=":0" />
**Exultate justi in Domino <ref name=":0" />
* 10 elevations (''[[petits motets]]'') for the ''Chapelle du roi''
* 3 hymns plainchant on poems of [[Jean Santeul]] for the new breviary of Paris (1680)
 
==Discography==
* Pierre Robert - Grands Motets: ''De profundis,'' ''Quare fremuerunt gentes,'' ''Te decet hymnus, Nisi Dominus,'' [[Musica Florea]], [[Olivier ScneebeliSchneebeli]] 2009 K617
 
==References==
Line 24 ⟶ 34:
{{Authority control}}
 
{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->
| NAME = Robert, Pierre
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = French composer
| DATE OF BIRTH = c. 1618
| PLACE OF BIRTH =
| DATE OF DEATH = 30 December 1699
| PLACE OF DEATH =
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Robert, Pierre}}
[[Category:1610s births]]
[[Category:1699 deaths]]
[[Category:French male classical composers]]
[[Category:MaleFrench classicalBaroque composers]]
[[Category:Baroque composers]]
[[Category:17th-century classical composers]]
[[Category:17th-century male musicians]]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Robert_(composer)"