Re: Mahler

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

And what would have happenned to Gustav's career had he NOT converted
(and liked it, dammit)? Also, weren't a lot of his 'religious' musical
themes (fifth movement of 3'rd, last movement of
4'th, for example) filched from not religious works (Songs of a Wayfarer,
for example) and recycled?

robert wiener wrote:

> Today's New York Times Arts & Leisure section, p.27-28, has an article
> by Nancy Raabe, "Mahler's Testament To the Abiding Unity of God and
> Nature."   Raabe writes that Mahler's conversion from Judaism to
> Christianity was one more of faith than of political convenience.  And
> that his Third Symphony  "may harbor the strongest musical statement
> of the composer's allegiance to the Christian faith: more, even than
> in the last movement of the Second Symphony."
>
> Bob
>

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