David Fanning (musicologist)

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Professor David Fanning is a professor of music at the University of Manchester. He is a world-renowned expert on the musics of Dmitri Shostakovich, Carl Nielsen and Soviet music.

As well as being a senior musicologist, he is also the pianist with The Quatuor Danel and a reviewer for the Daily Telegraph, Gramophone and BBC Radio 3.

[edit] Major Publications

  • The Breath of the Symphonist: Shostakovich's Tenth (London, 1988)
  • Expressionism Reassessed, ed. (Manchester, 1994)
  • Shostakovich Studies, ed. (Cambridge, 1995) ISBN 0521452392
  • Nielsen Symphony No. 5 (Cambridge, 1997) ISBN 0521446325
  • Nielsen Aladdin - critical edition (Copenhagen, 2000)
  • Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 (Aldershot, 2004) ISBN 0754606996
  • Nielsen Piano Works - critical edition (Copenhagen, 2006)