[1] After his father's death in 1883, he devoted himself entirely to music, studying in Vienna the piano with Toni Raab, and composition with Anton Bruckner.

[1] He recognized Göllerich's literary and pianistic talent, and made him his secretary and travel companion,[2] on concert tours to Germany, Italy and Russia.

[2] From 1890 until 1896, he was director of the Ramann-Volckmann'sche Musikschule, a music school in Nuremberg, together with his wife Gisela Pászthory-Voigt, also a pianist and student of Liszt.

His work remained an influential biography of the composer,[2] including views regarded later as problematic, such as "Musikant Gottes" (God's musician).

[2] The Anton Bruckner Private University holds his diaries, in which his memories of Liszt are recorded, and other materials, which are now in the Austrian National Library in Vienna.