| Timeline |
| 1811 |
Born 22 October, in Raiding Hungary |
| 1822 |
Studies with Karl Czerny in Vienna; debut as a pianist |
| 1823 |
Meets Beethoven |
| 1824 |
Performs in Paris and London at age 13 |
| 1831 |
Settles in Paris and meets Berlioz and Chopin |
| 1833 |
First big love affair, with Countess Marie d'Agoult |
| 1835 |
Famous public contest with rival piano virtuoso player Sigismund Thalberg. Liszt wins |
| 1847 |
Love affair with Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein |
| 1848 |
Settles in Weimar, Germany to compose and teach |
| 1865 |
Enters a religious order and becomes the Abbé Liszt |
| 1870 |
His daughter Cosima (by Countess Marie d'Agoult) marries Wagner |
| 1886 |
Performs for Queen Victoria in Windsor Castle. Dies 31 July, in Bayreuth, Germany |
