Louis-Marie Pilet (8 February 1815 â 13 November 1877) was a 19th-century French cellist.
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.
With ÃÂdouard Colonne as second violon and Pierre Adam as violist, 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.