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
George Dyson (composer) addition to those mentioned by the composer, the Dyson Trust lists the following compositions as available as at 2017: "A Spring Garland", "Children's Suite" for orchestra, Evening Service in C Minor, Evening Service in D, Morning Service in D, "Prelude, Fantasy and Chaconne" for cello and orchestra, "Te Deum Laudamus", and "Three Rhapsodies" for string quartet. The Trust has published a full list of works, totalling nine orchestral works, seven chamber works, thirteen pieces or sets of pieces for piano, four solo organ pieces, twenty works for chorus and orchestra, seventy-nine works for chorus with piano, or organ or unaccompanied,