Young, Victor

Victor Young Composer, bandleader, and violinist Chicago, Illinois, August 8, 1900; Palm Springs, California, November 11, 1956. Young ’s father was an opera tenor who abandoned his children after the death of Young ’s mother. Young was sent to Warsaw, Poland, in 1910, to be raised by his grandparents. Trained as a violinist, he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory, and played with several European orchestras until the beginning of World War I. He returned to the United States, and after the war…