Comments on: How do you pronounce Ferneyhough?

By: Dennis Ferneyhough

Dennis Ferneyhough — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:50:12 +0000

In Gloucestershire it is Ferney-off.

By: Eli Greenzweig

Eli Greenzweig — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:48:21 +0000

I’ve heard that his original name was Marius Dilhaud, but Marius in a certain society has amusing connotations. Daris sounds more complex and he probably didn’t want a funny name when he meant to write serious music. The origin of this piece of knowledge is the late Israeli conductor Arthur Gelbrun, who was known of his French orientation.

By: terry bromwich

terry bromwich — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:37:28 +0000

According to a very nice friend at work (who is British and actually has the name) it is pronounced

Fer-nee-how

as in bough (that’s bough of a tree, not boff, bog or bodge).

Just thought you might like to know!

By: Eric Shanfield

Eric Shanfield — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:15:35 +0000

Also: Michael Tor-kee, not torque.

And: Thomas Add-ess, not Uh-day.

By: robert berger

robert berger — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:27:25 +0000

Gubaidullina is not a Russian name,but a Tatar(Turkic) one.
The composer is half Tatar and half Russian.

By: Marc'

Marc' — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:41:45 +0000

I’ve always been a big fan of Jean SibeLEEus.

By: Daniel G.

Daniel G. — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:39:35 +0000

Grazie!

By: Anthony Cornicello

Anthony Cornicello — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:07:14 +0000

Wuorinen is pronounced “Wor-nen” (there’s actually a schwa between the two syllables – a swallowed vowel – but I’m not going to figure out how to write an upside-down e).

I’ve always hear it pronounced “Nus-sen”, without the apparently silent K.

“It’s pronounced Guacamole – and stop eating our young!”

By: Daniel G.

Daniel G. — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:34:31 +0000

Ok, what about:

Wuorinen

Knussen

By: Daniel Wolf

Daniel Wolf — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:30:25 +0000

David Toub -

Hungarian has short and long vowels, indicated by a mark that is identical with a accent. The short and long distinction here is literally one of length, not the vowel-that-says-its-name category in US shool grammars). Thus, the marking over the “o” in BartÃ³k is not an accent but indicates a long “o”.

The stress in Hungarian usually falls on the first syllable.