David Fanning (musicologist)

David Fanning (born 1955) 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 Mieczysław Weinberg. He is also the editor of the journal Carl Nielsen Studies.[2]

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

Rodion Shchedrin criticized Fanning in his memoirs, referring to him as a "so-called specialist" of Soviet music.[3]

  1. ^ "Professor David Fanning". Royal Northern College of Music. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
  2. ^ "Carl Nielsen Studies. Volume 6, 2020".
  3. ^ Shchedrin, Rodion (2013). Autobiographical Memories. Translated by Phillips, Anthony. Mainz: Schott Music. p. 110. ISBN 978-3-254-08419-4. I give you the names of some of these apologies for a specialist: David Fanning, David Gutman, Dorothea Redepenning, Enzo Restagno. This lady and these gentlemen are in no way equipped to have any real influence on the way music develops. But in an age like ours, when folk are so much more ready to hearken to advertising than to their own selves, it is within the power of these so-called specialists to sow chaos and confusion among the ranks of the feeble-minded.