Young, Victor

American pianist and composer; b. Bristol, Tenn., April 9, 1889; d. Ossining, N.Y., Sept. 2, 1968. Young studied piano with Isidor Philipp in Paris, then toured in England and the U.S. as an accompanist to prominent singers. He held various teaching positions and was music director in Thomas A. Edison's Experimental Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, conducting tonal tests and making piano recordings under Edison's personal supervision from 1919 to 1927. He wrote the musical SCORE for one of the earliest sound motion pictures, In Old California.

Altogether Young composed some 300 film scores, including Wells Fargo (1937), Gulliver's Travels (1939), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1946), Rio Grande (1950), The Quiet Man (1952), Shane (1953), and Around The World in Eighty Days (1956). He also wrote orchestral works, piano music, and many popular songs.