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 class at the

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where he gained a second prize in 1831 then a first prize in 1834.« Dictionnaire des lauréats » in

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on Gallica Pilet was a cellist in the orchestras of Nantes,

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and, in Paris, in the Concerts , Musard, and Théâtre italien then the

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from 1852. With

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as second violon and Pierre Adam as

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, he was a member of the

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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.

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/ref> Pilet died in Paris on 13 November 1877.

Gallery

Degas l'orchestre.jpg, Edgar Degas, '' The Orchestra at the Opera'' ( Musée d'Orsay, 1868) 1872 Degas Die Ochestermusiker anagoria.JPG, Degas, '' Musiciens à l'orchestre'' ( Städel, 1872) Edgar Degas, The Ballet from Robert le Diable, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg, Degas, ''Le Ballet de « Robert le Diable »'' (

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, 1876)

References

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Louis-Marie Pilet
in Paris—a Musical Gazetteer {{DEFAULTSORT:Pilet Louis Marie 1815 births People from Ille-et-Vilaine 1877 deaths French classical cellists 19th-century French musicians Conservatoire de Paris alumni 19th-century classical musicians