Louis-Marie Pilet (8 February 1815 – 13 November 1877) was a 19th-century French cellist.
Biography Louis-Marie Pilet studied music in Louis-Pierre Norblin's classLa Romance. Journal de musique, Paris, 22 November 1834 (read online) on Gallica at the Conservatoire de Paris where he gained a second prize in 1831 then a first prize in 1834.« Dictionnaire des lauréats » in Constant Pierre, Le Conservatoire national de musique et de déclamation : documents historiques et administratifs, Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1900 (read online) on Gallica
Pilet was a cellist in the orchestras of Nantes, London and, in Paris, in the Concerts , Musard, and Théâtre italien then the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris from 1852.
With Édouard Colonne as second violon and Pierre Adam as violist,« L'Enseignement de l'alto en France avant la création de la classe du Conservatoire par Frédéric Lainé », Les Amis de l'Alto, November 2005 (read online) he was a member of the Quatuor Lamoureux.« Revue des concerts », Le Propagateur des sciences, de la littérature, des arts et de l'industrie, Paris, Ch. Le Bouteiller, 1860 (read online) on Gallica
Edgar Degas made his portrait, , in 1868 and showed him in:The Orchestra at the Opera (), behind bassoonist Désiré Dihau, circa 1870. Both paintings are kept at the musée d'Orsay. Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988, 633 p. (read online)
Pilet died in Paris on 13 November 1877.
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External links Louis-Marie Pilet in Paris—a Musical Gazetteer