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By Paul Lin 林保華
Taipei Times 2021.1.3
Less than 10 days after enjoying a solo concert by Taiwan-born pianist Chen Ruei-bin (陳瑞斌), I was saddened to learn that China’s foremost pianist, Fou Tsong (傅聰), who at the end of the 1950s went into exile in the UK, had succumbed to COVID-19. These extremes of emotion served up by the pandemic joy and heartache conjure up memories.
Fou’s father, Fu Lei (傅雷), was a well-known translator of French literature. When I returned to China in 1955, Fu was living in Shanghai and had already achieved distinction. Two years later, at age 19, I was lucky enough to escape the horrors of the Anti-Rightist Movement. Fu was less fortunate and in 1958 was branded a “rightist.”
Fou Tsâong, a Chinese-born pianist known for his sensitive interpretations of Chopin, Debussy and Mozart, and whose letters from his father, a noted translator and writer, influenced a generation of Chinese readers, died on Monday at a hospital in London, where he had lived for many years. He was 86.
The cause was the coronavirus, said Patsy Toh, a pianist, who had been married to Mr. Fou since 1987.
Mr. Fou became one of the first Chinese pianists to achieve global prominence when he took third place in the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1955. He also won a special prize for his performance of Chopinâs mazurkas.
Fou Ts ong acknowledges a Guangzhou audience in 2009. LI QINGENG/FOR CHINA DAILY
Internationally celebrated pianist Fou Ts ong has died in Britain at the age of 86, prompting tributes from the music world. Complications from COVID-19 caused the death of the maestro on Monday, said Kong Jianing, one of Fou s former students.
Fou, who was born into an intellectual family in Shanghai, was the eldest son of the prominent Chinese writer and translator Fu Lei.
Just a day before Fou s death in London, Kong wrote on his WeChat Moments page: Mr. Fou has been receiving treatment at hospital for two weeks. Complications in the lungs appeared a week ago… hopefully he could make it.