Robin Mallapert (fl. 1538–1553) was a French musician of the Renaissance, probably a composer, who spent most of his life in Rome. He is best known as the teacher of Palestrina.
Nothing definite is known about the beginning or end of his life, but he was employed successively by several Roman churches and chapels: the Cappella Liberiana at S Maria Maggiore, the S Luigi dei Francesi, the Cappella Giulia (the Julian Chapel) at St Peter's, and St. John Lateran. During the period 1538-1539, when he was maestro di cappella at S Maria Maggiore, Palestrina was one of his singers: most likely he taught him singing and/or composition at this time.
References
"Robin Mallapert," in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. ISBN 1561591742
Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. ISBN 0393095304
He had a tremendous influence on the development of Roman Catholic church music, and his work can be seen as a summation of Renaissance polyphony, much the way J.S. Bach is for counterpoint in the Baroque era.
He is first known to have been in Rome in 1537, when he is listed as a choirboy there; he studied with RobinMallapert and Firmin Lebel.
There was a persistent story that he studied under Claude Goudimel, which originated in the 19th century, but recent scholarship has disproved this: Goudimel was never in Rome.
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