She won first and second prizes at the Conservatory, and socialized or performed with Jean-Delphin Alard, Georges Bizet, Ernest Guiraud, Camille Pleyel, and Jose Silvestre White.
His wife and their two daughters moved back to New Orleans to live with her parents, who were running a music store at 145 Canal Street.
Marguerite gave piano lessons at her parents’ store and joined the faculty of the Southern Academic Institute in 1889.
Her pupils included Helena Augustin, Ella Grunewald, Edna Flotte Ricau, Eugenie Wehrmann Schaffner, and Anita Socola Sprecht.
[1][2] While in New Orleans, Samuel performed with Bernard Bruenn, Lydia Eustis, Jeanne Faure, Mark Kaiser and his string quartet, Lilli Lehmann (who premiered Samuel’s song “Ma Vie a Son Secret”), Ovide Musin, Raoul Pugno, and Guillaume Ricci.