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David Fanshawe

Composer
18 April 1942 to 4 July 2010

Trained as a sound engineer, Fanshawe evolved into a classical composer best known for African Sanctus which was subject of a 1975 documentary. He also composed music for film and television productions, among them When The Boat Comes In (1976-81), Tarka The Otter (1979) and Mountains Of The Moon (1990).

- Read David Fanshawe's Guardian Obituary.

- Read David Fanshawe's Gramophone Obituary.

- Read David Fanshawe's Telegraph Obituary.

- Read David Fanshawe's Independent Obituary.