Bob Chen wrote:
>Kershaw also discusses Hitler's amateurish music criticism and his devotion
>to "the Wagner Cult" (his words, not mine). "Adolf's passion for Wagner ...
>knew no bounds," he writes. In Vienna, Hitler and Kubizek saw Lohengrin,
>"which remained Hitler's favourite," 10 times. "For him," Kubizek later
>wrote, "a second-rate Wagner was a hundred times better than a first-class
>Verdi."
A few months ago the Mahler-List discussed a NYT article that touched on
this subject. It seems that Hitler attended a Wagner opera and was much
moved by it. The conductor? Gustav Mahler. I can't find the details in my
data dumpster of a filing system, but a search of the Mahler-List archives
at
http://listserv.uh.edu/archives/mahler-list.html
might be worth your while.
Mitch Friedfeld