Abstract
In the last years of his life, the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt (1811–1886) suffered debilitating eye disease which was allied to his declining general health. During this period the style of his musical composition changed. Franz Liszt suffered from cataracts and from external eye disease, probably staphylococcal blepharitis. The paper examines the cause of his illness and evaluates its influence on his composition and performance.The paper also outlines the evolution of contemporary ophthalmic surgery and the illustrious career of Liszt's ophthalmologist, Alfred Graefe of Halle (1830–1899).
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