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Bruce Alan Wilson
>Correct me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that Mahler,
>although of he came from a Jewish ethnic background, was himself a Roman
>Catholic.
As has been said, Mahler only converted to Roman Catholicism so he could
get the job as Director of the Vienna State Opera.
Aaron Rabushka wrote:
>I've always been fascinated by the number of outstanding Jewish Wagner
>conductors: Hermann Levi, Gustav Mahler, Bruno Walter, Georg Solti, James
>Levine, Daniel Barenboim....
Even Adolf Hitler himself admired Mahler as a conductor of Wagner. The
young Hitler attended performances at the Vienna opera in 1906 where Mahler
was in the pit and was very complimentary. In a letter Hitler wrote of
seeing Tristan und Isolde "recreated under the magnetic baton of the Jew
Mahler."
Tony Duggan, England.
Mahler recordings survey - now complete:
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/Mahler/index.html#boxed
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