pronunciation of Gorecki

[PFOHL]

At the risk of being flamed (I do know how to pronounce Haydn and I do
speak German, thank you very much), I'm forced to satisfy my ignorant
curiousity by posing the following question: What is the proper
way to say the last name of the composer Henryk Gorecki? My Polish
isn't up to par. Is the C more of an S sound, or a K sound?

Merci beaucoup,
Brian Pfohl

[David Rolsky]

In article <3mjj32$n...@news.vanderbilt.edu>,

I was under the impression that it was pronounced sounding like
Goretski without the 'T' sound being very strong.

[Fred Goldrich]

In article <3mjj32$n...@news.vanderbilt.edu>,
PFOHL <PF...@ctrvx1.Vanderbilt.Edu> wrote:
>At the risk of being flamed (I do know how to pronounce Haydn and I do
>speak German, thank you very much), I'm forced to satisfy my ignorant
>curiousity by posing the following question: What is the proper
>way to say the last name of the composer Henryk Gorecki? My Polish
>isn't up to par. Is the C more of an S sound, or a K sound?

The Polish 'c' has a 'ts' sound.

--
Fred Goldrich
gold...@panix.com

[John Montanari]

In article <3mjj32$n...@news.vanderbilt.edu>, PF...@ctrvx1.Vanderbilt.Edu
(PFOHL) wrote:

> At the risk of being flamed (I do know how to pronounce Haydn and I do
> speak German, thank you very much), I'm forced to satisfy my ignorant
> curiousity by posing the following question: What is the proper
> way to say the last name of the composer Henryk Gorecki? My Polish
> isn't up to par. Is the C more of an S sound, or a K sound?

While we're discussing Gorecki's consonants, let's not overlook his
vowels. In particular, the first vowel in his name has a long "oo" sound
(like a baby's "goo goo").

John Montanari, WFCR
mont...@admin.umass.edu

[Michal Jankowski]

>>>>> "Brian" == PFOHL <PF...@ctrvx1.Vanderbilt.Edu> writes:

Brian> question: What is the proper way to say the last name of the
Brian> composer Henryk Gorecki? My Polish isn't up to par. Is the C
Brian> more of an S sound, or a K sound?

Neither. 8-)

It's (close to): goo-RETZ-kee

with "tz" as in SwiTZerland.

While we are at it, there should be an acute accent mark over the "o" -
something like "Go'recki".

MJ

[h.jen...@dosgg.nl]

Hello PFOHL!

In your msg of <Thu 13 Apr 95 18:21> you wrote to All:

P> What is the proper way to say the last name of the composer Henryk Gorecki?
P> My Polish isn't up to par. Is the C more of an S sound, or a K sound?

It's pronounced [go'retski]. The Polish-born conductor Paul Kletzki changed the
spelling of his family name when he became Swiss, but would have been known as
Klecki in his native country.

CU,
-=Hub=- (h.jen...@dosgg.nl)
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