Tony Duggan wrote (in reply to Tom Boyce's question "Wasn't Bruckner Hitler's favorite composer?": >One of them certainly. They played Bruckner (slow movement from the >Seventh Symphony) over German radio when the death of Hitler was announced. >Hitler also had an orchestra formed in Linz (where both he and Bruckner >came from) . . . True, Bruckner came from Ansfelden, a little village just outside Linz, But Hitler hailed from Braunau, a city a considerable distance from Linz and directly across the (Inn) river from Germany. In fact, it might have been said of the young Hitler "poor little Adolf, so far from God (Linz) and so close to Deutschland." John Dalmas [log in to unmask]