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At what age did Franz Liszt begin composing music?

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Franz Liszt — Franz Liszt Franz Liszt, oil on canvas by Henri Lehmann, 1840; in the Carnavalet Museum, Paris.

The Hungarian composer Franz Liszt began composing music at the age of eight.1