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