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Isabella Young was born in the 1720s or early 1730s but the exact year is now unknown as no record of her birth or baptism exists. Her father, Charles Young, was a clerk at the Treasury.
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Isabella Young
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Young became particularly associated with the works of George Frideric Handel and was a favorite singer of the composer during the last years of his life. She was also a part of a well-known English family of musicians that included several professional singers and organists during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She also had three famous aunts who were all notable singers.
Young studied singing with the bass Gustavus Waltz and she made her professional debut appearing with him in concert on 18 March 1751.
She went on to have a highly successful career as a concert and oratorio singer in London and the provincial festivals. She was also a soloist in the Messiah performances at the Foundling Hospital on a number of occasions.
She became particularly known for her organ recitals of Handel"s compositions. Although more famous as a concert soloist, Young also performed on the stage with success.
In February 1755 she appeared at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane as Titania in J.C. Smith’s opera The Fairies.
She returned to that theatre regularly through 1777, singing between the acts, in musical interludes and afterpieces. She also created roles in George Rush’s English operas The Royal Shepherd and The Capricious Lovers. John Scott in December 1757 Isabella usually sang in concerts and oratorios as Mrs Scott, but on stage she continued to describe herself as Mission Young until 1769.
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