Professor David Fanning is a professor of music at the University of Manchester. The University of Manchester is a " red brick " civic University located in Manchester, England. He is a world-renowned expert on the musics of Dmitri Shostakovich, Carl Nielsen and Soviet music. Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich ( Russian: ru Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович ( &ndash 9 August 1975 was a Russian Composer Carl August Nielsen (9 June 1865 &ndash 3 October 1931 was a conductor, Violinist, and Composer from Denmark. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991
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. For "The Daily Telegraph" in Australia see The Daily Telegraph (Australia. Gramophone is a magazine published monthly in London by Haymarket devoted to classical music and particularly recordings of classical
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)