[5] Her father did, however, allow Chaminade to study privately with teachers from the Conservatoire: piano with Le Couppey,[5] violin with Martin Pierre Marsick,[6] and music composition with Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard[7] and Benjamin Godard.

[4][8] Chaminade experimented in composition as a young child, composing pieces for her cats, dogs and dolls.

[9][5]: 4  In 1878, Chaminade gave a salon performance under the auspices of her professor, Le Couppey, consisting entirely of her compositions.

[4] Isidor Philipp, head of the piano department at the Conservatoire de Paris, championed her works.

[citation needed] She repeatedly returned to England in the 1890s, premiering her compositions with such singers as Blanche Marchesi and Pol Plançon.

She received the Laurel Wreath from the Athens Conservatory and the Order of the Chefakat by Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire.

[8] Before and after World War I, Chaminade recorded many piano rolls, but as she grew older, she composed less and less, dying in Monte Carlo on 13 April 1944, where she was first buried.

[21] Chaminade was relegated to obscurity for the second half of the 20th century, her piano pieces and songs mostly forgotten, with the exception being the Flute Concertino in D major, Op.

Many of Chaminade's piano compositions received good reviews from critics, some of her other endeavors and more serious works were less favourably evaluated, perhaps on account of gender prejudices.