Louis-Marie Pilet (8 February 1815 – 13 November 1877) was a 19th-century French cellist.
Louis-Marie Pilet | |
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| Born | 8 February 1815 |
| Died | 13 November 1877 (aged 62) Paris |
| Occupation | Cellist |
Biography
editLouis-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:The Orchestra at the Opera (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]
Gallery
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Degas, Musiciens à l'orchestre (Städel, 1872) -
Degas, Le Ballet de « Robert le Diable » (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1871) -
Degas, Le Ballet de « Robert le Diable » (Victoria and Albert Museum, 1876)
References
edit- ^ La Romance. Journal de musique, Paris, 22 November 1834 (read online) on Gallica
- ^ 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
- ^ « 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)
- ^ « 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
- ^ (in English) Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988, 633 p. ISBN 0-87099-519-7 (read online)
External links
edit- (in English) Louis-Marie Pilet in Paris—a Musical Gazetteer
