Krishan P Oberoi ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>
>>I read once somewhere (but don't recall where -if anyone knows of a source
>>for this I'd be grateful) that Mahler said he could never compose a Latin
>>Mass because he could not bring himself to set the words of the Credo.
>
>And yet he set the Catholic Doxology, which is perhaps the theological
>basis of the Credo, at the end of the first part of Symphony no. 8: Glory
>be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, "in saeculorum
>saecula"...

True, but IIRC it doesn't the actual word "Credo" (i.e.  I believe).
Don't think he had any trouble with others believing...:-)

Deryk Barker
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