(b Paris, 8 Aug 1857; d Monte Carlo, 18 April 1944). French pianist and composer. She studied privately with Godard and other Conservatoire teachers and gave her first public concert at 18. She wrote several major works in the 1880s, including an orchestral suite, a symphonie dramatique Les amazones, a Concertstück for piano and orchestra and an opéra comique; thereafter she wrote little besides piano pieces and songs, music of considerable charm, perhaps influenced by what was expected of a woman composer. She toured widely, several times in England (from 1892) and in the USA (1908).

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