Music majors: What's the correct pronunciation of "Esterhazy"?

[bbernardini]

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".

[joeybee12]

1. I'm no music expert, but I always thought it was

Es-ter-haus-eee

[Art_from_Ark]

4. I've heard it pronounced as

ES-ter-haw-zee

[Goldmund]

2. It is

es´terha´´zE

[Wednesdays]

3. I've always heard it as...

Eh-ster-HAH-zee.

But, that's just my experience. Don't know about anyone else.

[JM]

6. Agreed

n/t

[supernova]

5. These are the Hungarian Royals

Est - er - hah - zhee

[TrogL]

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.

[BurtWorm]

8. Where's the stress?

[TrogL]

11. First syllable

with a little bit on the third

[Ellen Forradalom]

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.

[BurtWorm]

10. How is the z pronounced?