Louis-Marie Pilet

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

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[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 [fr], 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 [fr], in 1868 and showed him in:The Orchestra at the Opera (L'Orchestre de l'Opéra [fr]), 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. ^ a b c « 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)