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Re: Composer Pronunciations

Author: Joseph Brenner, Jr.
Date: 2008-07-25 04:45

Stephmin,

Let's hope that one each of our colleagues from Estonia and Hungary can help. I say that because languages from those two (and Finland) are outside our Indo-European language family. Hungarian, I know, tends to stress hard on the first syllable of words and I'd not be surprised if Finnish and Estonian did likewise I'm with Chris on Turnidge's name, but I'd wager that Ligety's first name is closer to "George" than to what Chris presumes and the consonant stress would be on the first syllable in Ligety. As to whether Ligety is 3-syllables or 2-syllables I don't know. What I do know is that the Hungarians treat the letter "y" in an interesting way. European newscasters seemed to pronounce the late Hungarian leader Imre Nagy's last name as "Nadge" as opposed to Nay gee. When the pianist Lily Kraus came to Nashville for a master class, she co-taught it with Gyorgy Sandor. She referred to him as "George Shandor" (one syllable and soft g's in the first name and the standard Hungarian treatment of "S" in his last name (pronounced "sh"). That's a long way 'round Robin Hood's barn to say "you've asked a good question."

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