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"...

Krishan Oberoi
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