艾靈頓公爵出生於華盛頓特區，而且自小他就熱愛音樂。當他4歲時，他聽到他媽媽彈奏一首名為「玫瑰經」(The Rosary) 的流行鋼琴曲目，他掉下眼淚並說道：「太美了，真是太美了。」此事過後不久，7歲的他就開始彈鋼琴。看來他似乎知道他將會造訪許多地方，因為他告訴他的鄰居屏先生(Mr. Pinn)說：「終有一天，我會非常出名。」您猜艾靈頓公爵幾歲開始他的作曲生涯？

Duke Ellington was born in Washington D.C., and from an early age he loved music. When he was four years old, he listened to his mother play a popular piano tune called "The Rosary" and he cried, saying, "It was so pretty. So pretty." Not long after that, at the age of seven, he began to play piano himself. It seems that he knew he was going to go places. He told his next door neighbor, Mr. Pinn, "One of these days I'm going to be famous." How old do you think Duke Ellington was when he started writing music?

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