After attending a concert in 1832 in Paris by Niccolò Paganini, Franz Liszt determined to become as great a virtuoso on the piano as Paganini was on the violin. Working alongside many of the other great pianists of that era, Liszt solved some of the most intractable problems of piano technique, raising the general level of performance to previously unimagined heights. This talk focuses on that achievement, with an emphasis on Liszt's Transcendental Études and other similar works.