"Miss Husserl is without doubt the most promising young pianist heard so far this season," said a reviewer in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, after her New York debut at Town Hall in 1930.

"She brings to her instrument a highly cultivated technique, marked individuality and a truly remarkable innate rhythmic sense".

[16] In 1938 she was soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy, in a concert marking the 20th anniversary of the end of World War I.

Monath instructed that audiences should not applaud, and there were no intermissions[21] and no encores in the program; the names of musicians and the works to be performed were not announced in advance.

Pianist Seymour Bernstein, a student of her mother's, described Monath's final years as complicated by mental illness and financial struggles.

[30] In the novel Fifty-Seventh Street (1971), by Joseph Machlis, the pianist character "Judith Conrad" is partly based on Monath in her later years.