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Franz Liszt
b. 10-22-1811, Doborján, Hungary
d. 7-31-1886, Bayreuth, Germany

Franz Liszt was a renowned Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer of the 19th century Romantic period. Liszt was wildly popular and the hysteria of women fighting over his silk handkerchiefs and velvet gloves was described as “Lisztomania”.

Liszt, who heard Paganini in concert, was inspired to become as great a virtuoso on the piano as Paganini was on the violin. He also became a notable teacher who charged nothing for his lessons, and donated much of his concert fees to charity and performed to raise funds for humanitarian causes. Liszt's influence as a teacher reached to “Van” Cliburn, whose mother was a student of Arthur Friedheim, a student of Liszt.

Liszt helped popularize the then poverty stricken composer Berlioz by playing his compositions; he was also friends with Frederic Chopin and Richard Wagner. In fact Liszt's daughter with Countess Marie D'Agoult, Cosima, married Wagner.

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