Adam Liszt - The Last Time

The Last Time

Ádám died in 1827 in Boulogne-sur-Mer at the age of 50 when Franz was just 15 years old. They were staying at a retreat centre for Franz to rest efter a physician's ordination, but instead the father became fatally ill in typhoid fever, and was buried there. Franz composed a funeral piece in conjunction to his father's funeral service.

  • The house in Raiding, birthplace of Franz Liszt.

  • Maria Anna Lager, Adam's wife (portrait made by Julius Ludwig Sebbers between 1826 and 1837)

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