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