Following a bout of tuberculosis that required a stay in a sanatorium in Switzerland, Szigeti settled in Geneva, where he became Professor of Violin at the local conservatory in 1917.
Nakon napada tuberkuloze koji je zahtijevao boravak u sanatoriju u Švicarskoj, Szigeti se nastanio u Ženevi, gdje je 1917. postao profesor violine na lokalnom konzervatoriju.