Richard Pennycuick:

>When I first encountered the composer some years ago, his name was spelt
>Miaskovsky, and I assumed that it was pronounced MEE-AH-SKOFF-SKEE.  In
>recent years, it's changed to Myaskovsky, which some have pronounced as
>MY-AH-SKOFF-SKEE.  I wondered whether the more recent spelling is an
>attempt to combine M and YAH (as in the German Ja) into one syllable.

When in doubt (almost all the time), I pronounce Russian names as a German
would.

Steve Schwartz