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With frequent trips abroad as a pianist, and increasingly to conduct, he was to stay in Russia until the events of the [[Russian Revolution]] made him leave. These years had been productive; the technical and emotional framework of his art had matured; and many of the works that make his name were written during this time. When he and his family emigrated, he did so assured of success as a composer of note and one of the world’s greatest pianists.

He arrived in [[New York]] and was to spend the rest of his life in America, although spending a couple of months of each year based in [[Switzerland]]. Composition took second place to his concert appearances. He wrote only a few pieces during the last 30 years of his life, (nothing at all in the ten years to1927) however they were mostly major works and maintained his fame. His last work, the ''Symphonic Dances'', a piece first published for two pianos, then orchestrated, is a work (possibly once considered for a ballet score) with fire and colour belying its position as his final opus.