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Why did Franz Liszt stop his touring career as a piano virtuoso?
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Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt, oil on canvas by Henri Lehmann, 1840; in the Carnavalet Museum, Paris.
Franz Liszt decided to end his career as a piano virtuoso in 1847 after meeting the princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein in Kiev. She successfully persuaded him to abandon his touring life to focus his efforts on composition. Following this decision, he performed his final concert in September 1847 at Yelizavetgrad and subsequently settled in Weimar, where he dedicated his time to composing and conducting the court orchestra.1