David Manning

David Manning is a music researcher and writer. He edited Vaughan Williams on Music, published by Oxford University Press in 2008, an anthology of writings by the composer charting his development as a musician between 1897 and 1958. This book makes available a wide range of materials on topics including folksong, the history of British music, amateur music-making, and the composer's accounts of his own compositions. It is already making an impact on research into this composer, and is gaining recognition as an invaluable reference tool, as well as an entertaining read, receiving a maximum 5-star rating in BBC Music Magazine.

The author has also written occasional articles for the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Journal, and has written book reviews for journals including twentieth-century music. Future plans include a chapter on Vaughan Williams's as a public figure for the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams.

David Manning studied at the Universities of Bristol and Oxford, before completing his PhD, an analytical study of Vaughan Williams's music, at Cardiff University in 2003. In addition to undertaking academic research into twentieth-century British music, the author enjoys writing for wider audiences. For example, he contributed programme notes and an essay to the Three Choirs Fesitval Programme, marking the centenary of the first performance of Vaughan Williams's Tallis Fantasia.