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When did Herman Melville start making music?
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Herman Melville's first song “Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne” released on June 1, 1851.
Now recognized as one of the greatest American writers ever, Melville struggled in his own lifetime. He had early commercial success with the adventure novels Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847)—both were in part based on his own time at sea, but he himself considered them minor works. Melville then began work on Moby Dick, which would be his... Read More
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