Percy M. Young

Percy Marshall Young ( born May 17 1912 in Northwich, Cheshire; † 9 May 2004 York ) was a British music writer and composer.

Young was a student of Christ's Hospital and Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he also had organ lessons. He studied in Belfast and was from 1944 to 1966 Music Director of Wolverhampton College of Technology.

He has published more than fifty books, including in addition to numerous musician biographies and a history of British music and more about football. He also emerged as a composer of songs, chamber music and choral works. In the 1990s he led to Edward Elgar's unfinished opera, The Spanish Lady, to which he wrote a five-movement suite.

Musical Works

  • Birds and Beasts, songs
  • A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Fugal Concerto for Two Pianos and Strings, 1954
  • Festival Te Deum, 1961
  • Lea Hall Overture
  • Elegy for String Orchestra

Writings

  • The Oratorios of Commerce, 1949
  • Messiah - A Study in Interpretation, 1951
  • Elgar, Newman and ' The Dream of Gerontius ', 1951
  • Elgar, OM, 1955
  • History of British Music, 1967
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