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