Max Graf (music historian)

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Max Graf (around 1920)

Max Graf (born October 1, 1873 in Vienna ; † June 24, 1958 there ) was an Austrian music historian and critic.

Life

Max Graf studied with Eduard Hanslick , Anton Bruckner and Guido Adler . In 1902 he became a professor at the Imperial and Royal Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (until 1914). In the interwar period he was one of the most famous music critics. After the "Anschluss of Austria" , he emigrated to New York in 1938 and returned in 1947.

Graf was invited to the Psychological Wednesday Society of the doctor Sigmund Freud at the end of 1904 , gave a lecture in 1907 and was an active member until the end of 1909.

Max Graf was married three times. The first marriage had two children, including the opera director Herbert Graf . His third marriage was to the opera singer Polly Batic .

Works

  • German music in the nineteenth century , Berlin 1898
  • Modern music , 1946
  • Legend of a Music City , 1949
  • History and Spirit of Modern Music , 1953
  • The Vienna Opera , 1955
  • Every hour was fulfilled , 1957

Awards

literature

  • Elke Mühlleitner: Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysis. The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association 1902–1938 . Tübingen: Edition Diskord, 1992, ISBN 3-89295-557-3 , pp. 119f.
  • Othmar Wessely:  Graf, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 724 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Helmut Brenner / Reinhold Kubik: Mahler's people. Friends and companions. St. Pölten - Salzburg - Vienna 2014, pp. 84–88, ISBN 978-3-7017-3322-4 .
  • Graf, Max , in: Élisabeth Roudinesco ; Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms . Translation from French. Vienna: Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , pp. 362–364

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personal data
SURNAME Graf, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian music historian and critic
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1958
Place of death Vienna