David Fanning (born 1955) is a professor of music at the

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. He is an expert on the music of

Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, , group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich), First Symphony in 1926 and was regarded throug ...

Carl Nielsen Carl August Nielsen (; 9 June 1865 – 3 October 1931) was a Danish composer, conductor and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer. Brought up by poor yet musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he ...

and

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music. He is the author and editor of a number of books, collaborating with wife, Michelle Assay, on a book about

Mieczysław Weinberg Mieczysław Weinberg (8 December 1919 – 26 February 1996) was a Polish-born Soviet composer and pianist. Names Much confusion has been caused by different renditions of the composer's names. In official Polish documents made before he mov ...

. He is also the editor of the journal ''Carl Nielsen Studies''. As well as being a musicologist, he is also the pianist with the

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and a reviewer for ''

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'', ''Gramophone'' and

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Major publications

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

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'' (Cambridge, 2008) * ''Mieczyslaw Weinberg: In search of freedom'' (Hofheim, 2010) * ''Carl Nielsen: Selected Letters and Diaries'' (Copenhagen, 2017)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fanning, David English musicologists English classical pianists Male classical pianists Place of birth missing (living people) Living people Academics of the University of Manchester 1955 births 21st-century classical pianists 21st-century British male musicians