Max Graf

Max Graf (Austrian German:; 1 October 1873 – 24 June 1958) was an Austrian music historian and critic. He was born in Vienna to an Austrian-Jewish family. Graf was the son of Josef and Regine (Lederer) Graf. His father was a political writer and editor. Graf was described as the "dean of music critics in Vienna" in the first part of the 20th century.

In his recent book Freud’s Patients the scholar Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen has identified the maiden name of Max’s mother as Zentner rather than Lederer. Max Graf married three times. All his wives were singers. His first wife was Olga Hönig (1877–1961), a former patient of Freud’s with an apparently severe personality disorder (her analysis had failed). They divorced in 1920. Max’s mother, Regine, died in 1921. In 1922, he married his maternal cousin, Rosa Zentner (1895–1928). In early 1928, she died of sepsis following a tonsillectomy. In 1929, Max married the opera singer Leopoldine (Polly) Batic (1906–1992).