202110.20ArTianist He is known as the "Chopin of China" and is willing to always maintain a "child's heart" for music 2020 He is a great pianist in the United Kingdom due to the new crown virus - Fu Cong
Fu Cong learned to play the piano at the age of seven, studied under the famous Italian conductor and pianist Mei Baiqi at the age of nine, and learned the piano with the former Soviet pianist Mrs. Boris in 1951. In 1953, he was invited to perform Beethoven's Fifth Emperor Piano Concerto with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, which was a great success. In the same year, he won the third place in the piano competition of the 4th World Youth Festival. In 1954, Fu Cong was invited to Poland to study under the world-famous pianist and outstanding pianist and educator Professor Jerviski. In March 1955, he won the third prize in the world's most prestigious and authoritative piano competition, the Chopin International Piano Competition, and the Chopin "Mazouga" Most Outstanding Performance Award, and the judges from all over the world and the audience were shocked, believing that the Chopin he played "endowed with chopin's soul". In 1956, Fu Cong toured Europe for the first time and was known as a "piano poet".
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I have listened to many piano players in Beijing and Shanghai, the level of skills is relatively high, there are many talents in piano performing arts, in general, Shanghai is better than Beijing, which may be related to Shanghai's historical tradition. The problem is that the students are busy preparing for various competitions, busy with tasks, busy with "opening" skills, that is, busy practicing solos, and are not willing to play accompaniment, unwilling to play sonatas. And I'm very willing to play accompaniment, very happy to cooperate with the violin and soloists, sometimes more happy than letting me play solo. It is not easy to play the accompaniment well, and it sometimes takes more effort than practicing solo. At present, there are many piano competitions in the world, such as the most influential "Leeds" competition in the United Kingdom, which stipulates that Schubert's song accompaniment is required. Once I was invited to Italy as a judge for a piano competition, and one of the reasons why the first contestant won the prize was that he played the accompaniment of Schubert's songs very well. Being able to play the accompaniment well is one of the important criteria for measuring the musical level of a pianist. Play more chamber music. Chamber music can best train the expressive ability of music, it can train you to "speak freely with musical language", so that you feel that music has an "architectural three-dimensional sense", rather than a "flat sense". Don't play chamber music, don't go on a horizontal level. The players of the band must also play chamber music, otherwise the level of the whole band will be difficult to improve. At present, many international competitions also stipulate that chamber music should be played. I think the best "cure" for the problems that exist among current students is to play chamber music. The third point is to make it clear to the piano player (the student) what is the purpose of learning? Is it to become famous, to show off your skills, or because you really love music? If this problem is not clear, it will often cause some students to practice skills desperately and practice difficult works, the purpose of which is nothing more than to use skills to "scare people", sensationalize the public, and make a splash. This time I saw some students in the piano room "dead open" skills, it seems that the faster the better, the more brilliant the skills, the better. They forgot the real thing music, and now there is this tendency in the world. There are many musicians with brilliant skills abroad, but it is not easy to really play music well. The piano still has to express the music.