Anthony Young was born sometime during January 1683 in the Covent Garden area of London and was baptised on the following 11 February. Born into a musical family, his initial studies were with his father alongside his younger brother Charles Young, who would also become a successful organist and minor composer.
He was part of a well-known English family of musicians that included several professional singers and organists during the 17th and 18th centuries. As a boy he sang as a chorister at the Chapel Royal until March 1700. Music historian Charles Burney wrote that Anthony was organist at Street Katherine Cree from 1702 to 1706, but modern scholarship makes this seem unlikely.
He did, however, hold the post at Saint Clement Danes from 1707 until his death in London in 1747.
Anthony was by all accounts a fantastic organist and highly regarded among his peers. Several of Young"s nieces also had successful music careers.
