Louis-Marie Pilet

Louis-Marie Pilet (8 February 1815 – 13 November 1877) was a 19th-century French cellist.

Louis-Marie Pilet
Edgar Degas, Le Violoncelliste Pilet
(1868, Musée d'Orsay)
Born8 February 1815
La Guerche-de-Bretagne
Died13 November 1877(1877-11-13) (aged 62)
Paris
OccupationCellist

Biography

Louis-Marie Pilet studied music in Louis-Pierre Norblin's class[1] at the Conservatoire de Paris where he gained a second prize in 1831 then a first prize in 1834.[2]

Pilet was a cellist in the orchestras of Nantes, London and, in Paris, in the Concerts Valentino, Musard, and Théâtre italien then the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris from 1852.[2]

With Édouard Colonne as second violon and Pierre Adam as violist,[3] he was a member of the Quatuor Lamoureux.[4]

Edgar Degas made his portrait, Le Violoncelliste Pilet, in 1868 and showed him in L'Orchestre de l'Opéra, behind bassoonist Désiré Dihau, circa 1870. Both paintings are kept at the musée d'Orsay.[5]

Pilet died in Paris on 13 November 1877.[2]

References
  1. La Romance. Journal de musique, Paris, 22 November 1834 (read online) on Gallica
  2. « 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
  3. « 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)
  4. « 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
  5. (in English) Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988, 633 p. ISBN 0-87099-519-7 (read online)
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