Talk:Fou Ts'ong

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name change[edit]

would anyone object to having this article moved under the name "Fu Cong" instead of the current "Fou Ts'ong" ? Seeing as his father is under "Fu Lei", i thought that maybe father and son should have their names with the same romanization method...

zeChinaman 03:55, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I see this proposal went nowhere, but for the record, I would object to it. For better or worse, he's known in the West by the spelling we currently have. -- JackofOz (talk) 07:01, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Son[edit]

So his son is dead?--89.14.125.250 (talk) 17:49, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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"The Pianistic Art of Fou Ts'ong"[edit]

I can find no indication that this album exists aside from its mention here. Is this perhaps a back-translation from Polish into English? I would be inclined to regard the Fryderyk Chopin Institute as reliable for claims about Chopin's interpreters, but this claim doesn't seem to check out. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 03:09, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@AleatoryPonderings: it appears to be a "private issue " which implies it wasn't released commercially

Source and another source in Polish. I don't speak Polish either, but Google Translate renders word for word "Martha Argerich, Leon Fleisher and Radu Lupu, fascinated by the art of Fou Ts'ong, privately released in 1994 a compact disc entitled "The Piano Art of Fou Ts'ong"." Zingarese talk · contribs 20:44, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Zingarese, Yeah, on a second look the "private issue" bit seems critical. I asked at RSN about the Fryderyk Chopin Institute and it seems reliable, so I'm inclined to trust it on this as well. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 20:47, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

China Daily[edit]

… does not seem to be highly regarded at WP:RSN. See Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_305#China_Daily and Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_271#Chinese_news_sources. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 03:48, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've noted this again. The piece is a classic pre-concert puff piece; I wouldn't regard it as reliable for anything except perhaps the date/venue of the concert it's promoting. Can anyone access the full Grove's entry? I might try the Wikipedia Library but I've not managed to get it to work since they 'simplified' access.

Anyway, going offline now (need to practise my own piano). See where we are later. Espresso Addict (talk) 04:04, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have access to the full Grove entry, but it's only two paragraphs and says nothing about praise from his professors. AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 04:07, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, ok, WL now gives that to me but there's no more text than the free sample. Espresso Addict (talk) 05:29, 30 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]