Fou ts’ong, the primary chinese pianist to win international acclaim and fulfillment, has died elderly 86 after contracting covid-19. Fou died on monday in london, wherein he had been living for the reason that 1950s. His dying was confirmed to the bbc with the aid of jianing kong, a professor on the royal college of song and student of fou’s. Responding to the news on tuesday, the renowned chinese language pianist lang lang defined fou as “a absolutely first-rate pianist, and our non secular beacon”. Fou changed into born in china in 1934 to a circle of relatives of china’s intellectual elite. He first heard western classical music at a young age while his father, the renowned translator fu lei, back to china after several years living in france.