 3 "Organ Symphony" to Liszt; it had premiered in London only a few weeks before the death of its dedicatee.Liszt died in Bayreuth, Germany, on 31 July 1886, at the age of 74, officially as a result of pneumonia, which he may have contracted during the Bayreuth Festival hosted by his daughter Cosima.Questions have been posed as to whether medical malpractice played a part in his death.