Sophie Menter she became professor of piano at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory but left in 1886 to continue concertizing. Because of her popularity, Menter succeeded with music that no other pianist would touch. This included Liszt's First Piano Concerto, which she played in Vienna in 1869, 12 years after its disastrous premiere there. One of her recital specialties was a piece entitled "Rhapsodies". This was a composite of three of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies—Nos. 2, 6 and 12—along with fragments from several others. She also composed various pieces for piano, mainly in a brilliant style, yet referred to her own compositional talent as
Concerto for solo piano The Slovak composer Ján Zimmer wrote, in addition to seven concertos for piano and orchestra, a "Concerto for Piano without orchestra", op. 23 (1955/1956). The piano concertos nos. 4 and 6 of Michael Finnissy are pieces for solo piano. John White has described his Piano Sonata No. 152 as a concerto for solo piano. Concerto for solo piano While a concerto is generally a piece for an instrument or instruments with orchestral accompaniment, some works for piano alone have been written with the seemingly contradictory designation concerto for solo piano. Although various "concert" pieces have been written across history (such