Full Name: Franz Liszt; Profession: Hungarian composer, piano virtuoso, conductor, and teacher of the Romantic period; Nationality: Hungarian; Born: 22 October 1811; Birthplace: Doborján, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (now Raading, Austria); Generation: 19th-century Romantic-era European cultural generation, active across the mid-1800s and regarded as a quintessential figure of European Romantic nationalism in music; Chinese Zodiac: Goat (birth year 1811 falls in the Year of the Goat, and Liszt is widely cited as the most famous Goat composer); Zodiac Sign: Libra (born 22 October); Age in 2026: 215 (calculated from 1811 to 2026 based on his documented birth year); Marital Status: Never legally married, but maintained long-term partnerships resembling marriages with Countess Marie d’Agoult and Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein; Children: Three biological children—Blandine, Cosima (later Cosima Wagner) and Daniel—born from his relationship with Marie d’Agoult, alongside other stepchildren in his extended household and family circle; Description: Franz Liszt was a groundbreaking Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso whose dazzling performances and charismatic stage presence created the phenomenon known as “Lisztomania,” making him one of the first true international musical celebrities; he redefined piano technique with extreme virtuosity, octaves, glissandi and leaps, took Niccolò Paganini as a model, and effectively invented the modern solo piano recital, performing entire programs alone and establishing the vogue of the recitalist; as a composer he became a central figure of musical Romanticism, credited with inventing and consolidating the symphonic poem as a single-movement orchestral work based on an extra-musical idea, expanding harmony and form, pioneering programmatic music, and using thematic transformation to unify complex structures, thereby powerfully influencing later composers including Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss; beyond his own works he tirelessly promoted the music of others, served as conductor and Kapellmeister in Weimar, mentored younger musicians, and was revered as a visionary artist whose career, spanning more than six decades, helped shape 19th‑century European music and concert life; Cause of Death: Died on 31 July 1886 in Bayreuth, German Empire, at age 74, after an illness widely attributed to pneumonia contracted during the Bayreuth Festival, with multiple historical accounts describing severe pneumonia and complications as the primary cause.