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]
Major publications
- The Breath of the Symphonist: Shostakovich's Tenth (London, 1988) ISBN 978-0-947854-03-4
- Expressionism Reassessed, ed. (Manchester, 1994)
- Shostakovich Studies, ed. (Cambridge, 1995) ISBN 0-521-45239-2
- Nielsen Symphony No. 5 (Cambridge, 1997) ISBN 0-521-44632-5
- Nielsen Aladdin - critical edition (Copenhagen, 2000)
- Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 (Aldershot, 2004) ISBN 0-7546-0699-6
- Nielsen Piano Works - critical edition (Copenhagen, 2006)
- ISBN 978-0-521-60315-7
- Mieczyslaw Weinberg: In search of freedom (Hofheim, 2010) ISBN 978-3-936000-91-7
- Carl Nielsen: Selected Letters and Diaries (Copenhagen, 2017) ISBN 978-87-635-4596-9
References
- ^ "Professor David Fanning". Royal Northern College of Music. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
- ^ "Carl Nielsen Studies. Volume 6, 2020".
- 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.
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