Percy Young
Percy Marshall Young (born May 17, 1912 in Northwich , Cheshire , † May 9, 2004 in York ) was a British music writer and composer .
Young was a student at Christ's Hospital and Selwyn College , Cambridge , where he also took organ lessons. He studied in Belfast and was Music Director of Wolverhampton College of Technology from 1944 to 1966 .
He has published more than fifty books, including numerous musical biographies and a history of British music, as well as several on football . He also emerged as a composer of songs , chamber music and choral works. In the 1990s he performed Edward Elgar's unfinished opera The Spanish Lady , for which he wrote a five-movement suite .
In 1961 he was awarded the Handel Prize of the Halle district .
Musical works
- Birds and Beasts , songs
- A Child's Garden of Verse after Robert Louis Stevenson
- Fugal Concerto for two pianos and strings, 1954
- Festival Te Deum , 1961
- Lea Hall Overture
- Elegy for string orchestra
Fonts
- The Oratorios of Handel , 1949
- Messiah - A Study In Interpretation , 1951
- Elgar, Newman and 'The Dream of Gerontius' , 1951
- Elgar, OM , 1955
- History of British Music , 1967
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kenneth Shenton: Percy Young - Prolific Elgar scholar, composer and music editor. In: The Independent . May 15, 2004, accessed January 23, 2013 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Young, Percy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Young, Percy Marshall |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British music writer and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Northwich , Cheshire , United Kingdom |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 2004 |
| Place of death | York , UK |