Pierre Robert (composer)

Pierre Robert ( * 1618 in Louvres, † December 30, 1699 in Paris) was a French composer and conductor of the Baroque.

Life

Pierre Robert, who came from a middle-class Parisian family, was trained as a chorister at the Cathedral Notre- Dame de Paris cathedral. He studied in addition to the music, theology and was ordained a priest. His first position as Kapellmeister he had from 1648 at the Cathedral of Senlis, two years later he was Kapellmeister at the Cathedral of Chartres. From 1653 to 1663, Pierre Robert in succession by Valentin de Bournonville of music at Notre- Dame de Paris.

From 1663 he had a job as a " sous- maître et compositeur " at the " Chapelle Royale " and 1672 after the death of Thomas Gobert to 1683 he was " compositeur de la chambre du roi ". 1683 Robert left with a high board and equipped with lucrative benefices the royal chapel, but occasionally contributed compositions at.

During more than 20 years, Pierre Robert, alternating with Henri Dumont, who is responsible for the musical arrangement of the daily masses together for King Louis XIV Lully and Dumont, he is the creator " Grands Motets ". When his most important works for double the 24 " Grands Motets " apply by 1684 the style of Lully correspond roughly, but approximates the Italian forms at the elevation motets.

Works (selection)

• 2 Motets contrapuntiques, " Regina Coeli " and " tristis est anima mea " (before 1663 )
• 24 Grand motets à deux chœurs et instruments pour la Chapelle du roi (Paris, Ballard 1684)
• 11 Elevations ( petits motets ) pour la Chapelle du roi
• 3 hymns "en plain- chant " to poems by Jean Santeul for the new Breviary of Paris ( 1680)