 Whereas, the noted pianist Charles Rosen claims to have heard Monod perform Milton Babbitt's "The Widow's Lament in Springtime" as early as 1945 or 1946 at Princeton —and yet the work was not composed until 1951.At a time when the musics of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern were least performed in America, Monod was among their earliest champions.He spent much of the 1950s as a pianist, performing works of the Second Viennese School for piano and voice, similar to the careers of pianists E. Steuermann; P. Stadlen; C. Helffer; Paul Jacobs; the Viennese pianist, Karl Steiner; and the American pianist, L. Stein.