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Did Carl Nielsen have a hard time in Carl Nielsen's early years?
Nielsen was born the seventh of twelve children to a poor peasant family in 1865 at Sortelung near Norre Lyndelse, south of Odense on the island of Funen.
When did his his interest begin in playing violin?
when in bed with the measles, I had tried myself out on the little violin.
What happened after he tried the violin?
He learned the violin and piano as a child and wrote his earliest compositions at the age of eight or nine.
When did he begin to get recognition for his talent?
As his parents did not believe he had any future as a musician, they apprenticed him to a shopkeeper.

Question: DId he continue with the violin and composing after becoming a shopkeeper?
Self-contained rewrite: DId Carl Nielsen continue with the violin and composing after becoming a shopkeeper?