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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 10:19 AM
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Music majors: What's the correct pronunciation of "Esterhazy"?
You know, the family Haydn worked for for years and years.

By the way, you'd be surprised how many kids fall for my joke about how Haydn invented the famous children's game "Haydn Go Seek".
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 10:20 AM
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1. I'm no music expert, but I always thought it was
Es-ter-haus-eee
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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 10:21 AM
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4. I've heard it pronounced as
ES-ter-haw-zee
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Goldmund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 10:20 AM
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2. It is
es´terha´´zE
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Wednesdays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 10:21 AM
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3. I've always heard it as...
Eh-ster-HAH-zee.

But, that's just my experience. Don't know about anyone else.
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JM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 10:43 AM
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6. Agreed
n/t
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 10:24 AM
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5. These are the Hungarian Royals
Est - er - hah - zhee
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 10:51 AM
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7. It doesn't translate well to English pronounciation
Ess-ter-hau-tsee

The "ss" on "ess" is very short.
The "ter" is closer to "there" than "terse".
The "hau" is closer to "how" than "hah".
The "ts" is pronounced as one phoneme. There is no English equivalent.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 10:56 AM
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8. Where's the stress?
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 01:34 PM
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11. First syllable
with a little bit on the third
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 11:12 AM
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9. Student of Hungarian language here
Many of the Hungarian websites I perused spell it Eszterházy.

The stress is always on the first syllable.
'sz' is pronounced 's'
'á' is an 'ah' type a.
'házy' means 'from the house of' (ház being one of the relatively few cognates of Indo-European languages.)

P.S. Re Haydn Go Seek: Man, you're bad.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-31-03 11:34 AM
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10. How is the z pronounced?
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