艾灵顿公爵出生于华盛顿特区，而且自小他就热爱音乐。当他4岁时，他听到他妈妈弹奏一首名为「玫瑰经」(The Rosary) 的流行钢琴曲目，他掉下眼泪并说道：「太美了，真是太美了。」此事过后不久，7岁的他就开始弹钢琴。看来他似乎知道他将会造访许多地方，因为他告诉他的邻居屏先生(Mr. Pinn)说：「终有一天，我会非常出名。」您猜艾灵顿公爵几岁开始他的作曲生涯？

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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