pronouncing 'wolfgang'

[Tash]

i have been living for 20 years now and it has just occured to me that the pronounciation of 'wolfgang' is most likely not wolf-gang in some good old aussie accent- the w's going to sound like a v and the vowels are probably rounder right? which would kill the whole thing in amadeus of mozart's wife calling him 'wolfie'...

[tryer]

Tooo anal.

[berrt]

of mozart's wife calling him 'wolfie'...

"volf-gung"
the "u" like in "under"

I think Constanze called him "gangerl" - only possible for native austrians, not australians...

B.

[leahcim]

i have been living for 20 years now and it has just occured to me that the pronounciation of 'wolfgang' is most likely not wolf-gang in some good old aussie accent- the w's going to sound like a v and the vowels are probably rounder right? which would kill the whole thing in amadeus of mozart's wife calling him 'wolfie'...

The baptismal record gives his name in Latinized form as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus (Gottlieb) Mozart. Of these names, the first two were saint's names not employed in everyday life and the fourth was variously translated in Mozart's lifetime form as Amadeus (Latin), Gottlieb (German), and Amadé (French); Mozart himself preferred the third


More here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart%27s_name

Short answer I guess is, there's no real difference "translating" parts of his name into your language than the registrar, Mozart and others did into theirs.

[semme]

heres the pronounciation of "wolfgang" 

www.corinnastricker.de/V003.WAV

[countchocula]

Wolfgang - pronounced "Voelfghoeng"
Hope this helps.

[jas]

Wolfgang - pronounced "Voelfghoeng"
Hope this helps.

If you can work up enough phlegm...

I pronounce it Voolfgang, if that's any use.

Jas

[berrt]

I pronounce it Voolfgang, if that's any use.
Jas

Not so much use - its wrong.

[Tash]

mmm that's what i was thinking thanks all!