Pronunciation of "Cui"

[Francoise Rosset]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:51:39 -0400
  Klawa Thresher <kthresher at RANDOLPHCOLLEGE.EDU> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> A musician has asked me how to pronounce this composer's name - and
> specifically if the "C" is soft or hard.  He says that in Chinese 
>the
> name is pronounced as "Sway."   

But that doesn't make much sense if his Russian name is Kjui
K-JU-I, sort of like Q-E as in QE II in English.
If that name is French, as I've heard it, then it might pronounced
à la française, which I can't begin to transliterate -- but such names
acquire an Russian pronunciation anyway.

Or is the Russian name really something else??
-FR

Francoise Rosset, Associate Professor
Chair, Russian and Russian Studies
Coordinator, German and Russian
Wheaton College
Norton, Massachusetts 02766
Office: (508) 285-3696
FAX:   (508) 286-3640

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