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When did Washington Irving start making music?
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Washington Irving's first song “Rip Van Winkle, a Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker” released on January 1, 1819.
The first great American man of letters. Irving wrote some of our foundational American stories, including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Rip Van Winkle, about a lazy man who falls asleep and sleeps through the American Revolution (things are better when he wakes up). Irving earned a European following early and then his American acolytes... Read More
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