CASALONGA, Marguerite

French composer and music critic, born in Paris as Marie Marguerite Octavie Hélène Anne Casalonga. After her marriage to the journalist and writer Lucien Victor-Meunier in 1897, she was also known as Marguerite Meunier. Her surviving compositions consist primarily of piano music and songs. They include Tango-Habanera, Deux Caprices, Canzone del lago, Fantasia cantabile, Méditation, La Reine Mab, Rosita, Toccata, Valse in A-flat major and the song Sur la France, based on a poem by Pierre de Ronsard. Casalonga also wrote music criticism and contributed articles about performers and the Ballets Russes to the French press. Little information about her musical education and career has been preserved.