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Pierre Robert was educated at the boys choir, or ''maîtrise'', of [[Notre-Dame de Paris]] under the direction of [[Henry Frémart]], Jean Francois, and Cosset Veillot before being appointed master of music at the [[Cathedral of Senlis]] in 1643. In 1650 he went to [[Cathedral of Chartres]] before returning to Senlis in March 1652. On April 28, 1653, he was appointed music master of Notre Dame de Paris, replacing Valentin de Bournonville where he remained ten years as head of the ''maîtrise''.<ref>Sadie J.A. Companion to baroque music 1998 p466</ref><ref>Sadie S. The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians, Volume 16 1980 p66</ref><ref>Bianconi L. Music in the seventeenth century 1987 p149</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 [[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.
Robert died in Paris and was buried at Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs.
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