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1811 CE - 1886 CE: Life of the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt.
1811 CE: Franz Liszt is born in Raiding, then in Hungary but today in Austria.
1822 CE: Franz Liszt studies in Vienna.
1831 CE: Franz Liszt hears the great violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini in Paris and is inspired to become a virtuoso pianist.
1834 CE: Franz Liszt begins a relationship with Countess Marie d'Agoult.
1837 CE: Franz Liszt's daughter Cosima is born.
1840 CE - 1847 CE: Height of 'Lisztomania' where Franz Liszt causes a sensation giving piano recitals.
1844 CE: Franz Liszt separates from Countess Marie d'Agoult.
1848 CE: Franz Liszt takes up his position as the music director of the Weimar ducal court.
1848 CE: Franz Liszt begins a scandalous relationship with Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein.
1848 CE: Franz Liszt completes his Les préludes symphonic poem.
1849 CE: Franz Liszt completes his Piano concerto No. 1 and No. 2.
1850 CE: Franz Liszt completes his Liebesträum piano works.
1853 CE: Franz Liszt completes his Piano Concerto in E flat.
1854 CE: Franz Liszt completes his Piano Sonata in B minor.
1856 CE: Franz Liszt completes his Dante Symphony.
1857 CE: Franz Liszt completes his Faust Symphony.
1861 CE: Franz Liszt leaves Weimar and moves to Rome.
1862 CE: Franz Liszt completes his oratorio Die Legende von der heilige Elisabeth (Legend of St. Elizabeth).
1865 CE: Franz Liszt takes minor orders and calls himself the Abbé Liszt.
1867 CE: Franz Liszt completes his Christus oratorio.
1875 CE: Franz Liszt establishes a music academy in Pest.
1877 CE: Franz Liszt completes his Années de pèlerinage - Years of Pilgrimage anthology of piano pieces.
1885 CE: Franz Liszt completes his quartet of Mephisto Waltzes.
1885 CE: Franz Liszt completes his collection of solo piano works titled Hungarian Rhapsodies.
1886 CE: Franz Liszt dies of pneumonia in Bayreuth in Bavaria.