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New Composer Pronunciation Question

Author: mrn
Date: 2008-07-27 19:43

The thread about composer pronunciations made me think of another question about composer names. I'll bet somebody knows the answer to this one:

If Pierre Boulez is French, why is it that everyone I've ever heard pronounce his name pronounces his surname "Boo-lezz" (with an audible "z" so it rhymes with "says")? It looks as if it ought to be pronounced "Boo-lay" (like the French word "voulez"). I've always wondered if he perhaps Anglicized the pronunciation or if that's actually how his name has been pronounced since childhood. A side question would be how is his name pronounced by Francophone music-lovers, for example.

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