David Fanning (musicologist)
David Fanning is a professor of music at the University of Manchester. He is an expert on the music of Dmitri Shostakovich, Carl Nielsen and Soviet music. [1] He is the author and editor of a number of books, collaborating with wife, Michelle Assay, on a book about Mieczyslaw Weinberg.
As well as being a musicologist, he is also the pianist with The Quatuor Danel and a reviewer for the Daily Telegraph, Gramophone and BBC Radio 3.
Major publications
- The Breath of the Symphonist: Shostakovich's Tenth (London, 1988) ISBN 9780947854034
- 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)
- The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich (Cambridge, 2008) ISBN 9780521603157
- Mieczyslaw Weinberg: In search of freedom (Hofheim, 2010) ISBN 9783936000917
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