Guy Robert was born in Tarbes on 22 March 1943 and died in Saumur on 30 March 2020. A self-taught guitarist, he took up the lute and received the Fondation de la Vocation prize in 1967. He worked with several early-music ensembles, including Charles Ravier’s Ensemble polyphonique de l’ORTF and Jean-Claude Malgoire’s La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy. In 1974 he co-founded the Ensemble Guillaume de Machaut with the haute-contre singer Jean Belliard.

He was a lutenist, a performer of early and contemporary music, and a teacher. In 1979 he founded the Ensemble Perceval, an instrumental and vocal group specialising in the secular music of the Middle Ages. The ensemble recorded several discs of troubadour and trouvère music for Arion, including one devoted to Adam de la Halle’s Jeu de Marion et Robin. He also took part in premieres of works by Georges Aperghis, Jean-Pierre Guézec and Georges Couroupos.

Sources:

• https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Robert_(musicien)
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3122106