Biography:David Young
David Young
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| Given name: | David |
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| Family name: | Young |
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| Profile: | Collector, Composer, Musician |
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Biographical notes
David Young was an amateur violinist and composer, and a writing master in Edinburgh, and subsequently master of the grammar school in Haddington. He was also a professional music copyist, who was also responsible for compiling several important collections of Scottish tunes in the first half of the 18th century; the two parts of the Drummond Castle Manuscript (1734, AKA "Duke of Perth Manuscript", in private possession; a photocopy at NLS is catalogued as MS 21715), both surviving volumes of the MacFarlane Manuscript (c. 1740, NLS MSS 2084 and 2085), the Young-Bodleian Manuscript (c. 1740, Bodleian Library MS Don.d.54), and the McGibbon Manuscript. In 1748 he co-founded the Aberdeen Musical Society with John Gregory and five others, and served as the Society's first clerk. Its constitutional documents are in his hand.