| Birth Date: | 8 February 1815 |
| Death Place: | Paris |
| Occupation: | Cellist |
Louis-Marie Pilet (8 February 1815 – 13 November 1877) was a 19th-century French cellist.
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, 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, , 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.[5]
Pilet died in Paris on 13 November 1877.[2]