Louis-Marie Pilet

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 Conservatoire de Paris where he gained a second prize in 1831 then a first prize in 1834.

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. he was a member of the Quatuor Lamoureux.

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.

Pilet died in Paris on 13 November 1877.

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