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. 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.

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.