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.

As a coincidence, Bruckner was composing the slow movement in the 7th
symphony when Richard Wagner died.  The movement is dedicated to him,
though he had just 2-3 minutes left to finish to compose when he got the
report, so the pieces idea could not be said to be a memoriam to Wagner.

Thomas Boyce <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Wasn't Bruckner Hitler's favorite composer?

Hard to tell.  When the young Hitler heard a symphony (I forgot which)
by Mahler in concert in Vienna, he was amazed:  "My eyes brim of tears of
admiration for the man who has created this" though he added:  "A perfect
example of masterful Jewish magics".

But Hitler liked many composers, and surely his taste changed from time
to time too.  He is from different sources reported to have liked Bruckner,
Wagner (and Mahler!) which he to times substituted with lighter music like
Strauss-Waltzes.  I don't think, however that he liked Richard Strauss.

The reports on which his favourite Wagneropera was are different too, but
he seems to have had a certain affinity for "Parsifal".  It supports the
theory that Hitler was sterile, or/and knew he was mis-functioned in the
genitalia apparatus.  Much of Hitlers interest in mysticism was tied to a
13th century Austrian alchemist and prophet (with a - on true alchemist
manner - latinized name, which I forgot), who according the descriptions
was "smooth between the legs".  Klingsor, in the opera then, is the man who
seeks the grailknights celibate for old sins, but he cannot control his
sexuality, and therefore he simply destroys it with castrating himself.
Such a deed was known since early Christianity (another of Hitlers favorite
subjects).  The annals tell that the synod of Niacaea anno 325 decided that
men who had been wounded by mistake by a doctor or wounded by barbarians
could stay in the religion, but not a man of good health that had cut
himself.  It is interesting that Hitler identified with Klingsor to
describe his political role.  But much in Hitler has double bottoms....

Didrik Schiele