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Fu Cong, known as the oriental piano poet, recently reported that he had contracted a new corona pneumonia in the UK and was hospitalized. The news of his death in the early morning of the 29th Taiwan time was heard at the age of 86. Many people in the music industry have posted on social media sites. Posting mourning, including pianist Li Yundi, who won the first prize in the Chopin Piano Competition, said on his personal social website: “It was amazing to know that Master Fu Cong had left us.”
Fu Cong came to Taiwan many times before his death. The first time he came to Taiwan was in 1982. Qin Yin was popular with countless audiences. He once said before his death: “Many young people always say:” What is my style? But I’ve never said that. “Because in the world of the piano there is no Fu Cong, only music.
Fu Cong is the son of the translator Fu Lei. He was born in Shanghai in 1934. He began to learn piano at the age of 8. He was awarded third place in the International Chopin Piano Competition in 1955 and won the Mazuka Prize. It was the first place on the continent to win the Chopin Competition. a person. He moved to the UK in 1958, and has always been considered a servant of music for half a century, and is highly respected by the international music scene.
However, Fu Cong’s parents were classified as right-wingers during the Cultural Revolution in mainland China, and both were hanged in 1966, which became Fu Cong’s repentance. After the Cultural Revolution ended in 1978, Fu Cong was allowed to return to the mainland and eventually returned to his hometown.
Fu Cong once said that the reason he decided to emigrate to the UK “is not that I really yearn for the Western world, nor is it because I choose freedom. None of this is so simple, but it is also impossible.” When you get to the UK, you might stop playing the piano. “If I go back, the first thing I do is reform myself through work. It will be difficult to know what happened after that.”
Fu Lei is an important translator of French literature, he has translated 15 works by the French writer Balzac. As a child, Fu Cong also listened to his father talk about art and culture with people from literary and artistic circles in the living room. I am curious about the world: “I am not an ordinary noisy child, but a small adult. I have a keen sense of world events, music and literature.”
Fu Lei had arranged for Fu Cong to study painting, but he was not very interested. He then observed that Fu Cong especially liked music when he listened to records, so he arranged for him to study piano. The teacher thought that Fu Cong had a talent for music and that he should cultivate himself. In order to give Fu Cong more time to practice piano, Fu Lei asked his tutor to nurture Fu Cong, asking him to recite classic poems, learn classics like Confucius, Mencius, and Historical Records. At the same time, he copied the staff for Fu Cong. His mother Zhu Meifu sold jewelry and bought it. piano.
Fu Cong said before his death that he believed in his father’s teachings: “My father said, first be a man, second, an artist, third, a musician and finally a pianist. I always believe that this order is very correct.”
When Fu Lei and Zhu Meifu couldn’t see their son Fu Cong, they wrote about their mistakes in letters. In 1981, Fu Cong’s younger brother Fu Min compiled and published the “Fu Lei Family Letters” written by Fu Lei to Fu Cong, which became a generation-influencing reading.
However, the first edition only included letters from Fu Lei and Zhu Meifu, mainly because Fu Cong did not want the letters he wrote home to be made public at the time. Later versions with Fu Cong’s responses came out. Fu Cong once said, “A hundred years from now, there will be all kinds of inexplicable statements about me, but I can’t control it. I can’t help it. I can’t take care of the fame and fortune behind me.”
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