Books, Arts & Manners: In Search of God

Each in his own way was a Gottgetrunkene Mensch. Each in his music sought to beat a path out of the confusions of post-Romanticism. They were contemporaries, as the patina of their compositions discloses, yet they were centuries apart. Gustav Mahler was a

product of the extraordinary sophistications of Vienna—a Jew who like other Jews in the arts found refuge in conversion and Catholicism. His faith was no less deep than that of Anton Bruckner, of peasant stock, whose thinking and emotions sprang full-bodied from the Middle Ages. Mahler was one of the great conductors of his time, a creature of the orchestra. Bruckner was a church organist who almost reluctantly moved into the symphonic arena.

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Each in his own way was a Gottgetrunkene Mensch. Each in his music sought to beat a path out of the confusions of post-Romanticism. They were contemporaries, as the patina of their compositions discloses, yet they were centuries apart. Gustav Mahler was a

product of the extraordinary sophistications of Vienna—a Jew who like other Jews in the arts found refuge in conversion and Catholicism. His faith was no less deep than that of Anton Bruckner, of peasant stock, whose thinking and emotions sprang full-bodied from the Middle Ages. Mahler was one of the great conductors of his time, a creature of the orchestra. Bruckner was a church organist who almost reluctantly moved into the symphonic arena.