Brother Franz Liszt was born on the 22nd October 1811 in the village of Doborján, in Sopron County, in the Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire.
Franz began to improvise at the piano from before the age of five, and his father diligently encouraged his progress. Franz also found exposure to music through attending Mass, as well as travelling Romani bands that toured the Hungarian countryside. His first public concert was in Sopron in 1820 at the age of nine.
At the age of 30 on the 18th September 1841 he was initiated in Union Lodge, Frankfurt, Germany, he went onto be Passed on the 8th February and Raised on the 22nd February 1842 at a Lodge in Berlin.
Bro Liszt passed to the Grand Lodge Above on the 31 July 1886, at the age of 74 as a result of pneumonia, which he had contracted prior to arriving in Bayreuth, He was buried on 3rd August 1886, in the municipal cemetery of Bayreuth.
