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When did Edward Lear start making music?

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Edward Lear's first song “The Scroobious Pip” released on January 1, 1888.


Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularised. 
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