After his Immigration to the United States in November of 1958, Rausch’s time was filled with his duty to family and to acclimate to a new country. Though he retired in 1973, he didn’t find time to compose until 1975 when he wrote a work for solo violin. His previous composition was written in Germany in 1958 – a lacuna of 17 years. Of his 12 compositions written in America, only 5 were given titles. The Music for Violin and Piano is one of his strongest works – economical, inventive, and idiosyncratic.

Just at the time when Rausch had the time and, after years of development, had the technical and artistic means to voice himself, he stopped writing. In his autobiography, he writes “My head was glowing with musical ideas, and I wrote and wrote compositions of many a variety. How come that all my attempts to present them to the public were doomed to failure? Many people seemed to be annoyed when I talked about my compositions. Even my best friends avoided coming in touch with them. Why? I thought about it long and hard. Did I lack the inner conviction of their worthiness? Are the people already overburdened with music and grown tired? Maybe something new and absolutely striking was expected that I could not deliver? Whatever the reason, I might as well have chased a phantom all my life and began gradually now to look beyond music, beyond the sensual world and material-bound endeavors in general, which keep us so busy.”