Ray Bay confessed and queried: >I never listen to the music of any composer who's name I am >afraid to pronounce. I do all the time. I just don't talk about it. >So how do you pronounce Buxtehude? My pronunciation has always been: BOOX-teh-hoo'-duh Primary stress on the first syllable; secondary stress on the third. I sometimes slip into "BUKS-teh-hoo'-duh," but nobody's taken me to task over it...yet. And I've never made the error (or, in social situations, the faux pas) of mispronouncing Fux. Mark K. Ehlert