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Max Graf (; 1 October 1873 – 24 June 1958) was an Austrian music historian and critic. He was born in Vienna, the son of Josef and Regine (Lederer) Graf. Max 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 wive 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 septicemia following a tonsillectomy. In 1929 Max married the opera singer Leopoldine (Polly) Batic (1906-1992).
In the introduction to Composer and Critic, Graf details his original interest in music criticism as having stemmed from attending the lectures of Anton Bruckner in Vienna.
Graf is also notable for his role in the history of psychoanalysis as the father of Herbert Graf, whose treatment was described by Sigmund Freud. His first wife and Little Hans' mother, Olga Hönig, was one of Freud's patients.
Graf was Jewish and fled Vienna for the United States in 1938, where he taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City until 1947, when he returned to Vienna. He died there in 1958.
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