Becoming disillusioned with the teaching she moved to Vienna and studied with Theodor Leschetizky, who himself had been a pupil of Carl Czerny.
However, her career as a public performer was cut short (around 1917) when she developed a rheumatic complaint in her hands, which left her unable to satisfy her own high standards.
She took some further lessons from him and he persuaded her to move to London and teach there,[3] effectively working as his assistant.
[4] They had intended to establish a piano school together, but the plans were abandoned due to Moiseiwitsch's increasingly heavy international concert schedule.
[5] Her private pupils included (in oldest to youngest order) Malcolm Sargent (who lodged with her for many years),[6] Alan Bush, William Busch, David Ellenberg (conductor at the Unity Theatre), Mary and Geraldine Peppin, Roger Sacheverell Coke, John Kuchmy and James Gibb.