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Max Friedlaender (12 October 1852, Brieg/Brzeg,Province of Silesia,Prussia – 2 May 1934,Berlin) was a Germanbass singer, music editor, andmusicologist. He specialized in GermanLieder.
Friedlaender studied voice with well-known teachersManuel Garcia in London andJulius Stockhausen inFrankfurt, both of thebel-canto school. From 1881 to 1883 the singer lived and worked at Frankfurt, moving to Berlin in 1883. He received a doctorate from theUniversity of Rostock in 1894 with a dissertation onFranz Schubert and joined the music faculty atBerlin University in 1894.
Friedlaender emigrated to America in 1911 where he taught at Harvard University. He succeededRochus von Liliencron as general editor for aBook of National Songs for Men's Choirs first proposed byKaiser Wilhelm II in 1906. In the 1920s, Friedlaender was closely involved in the formation of theDeutsches Volksliedarchiv (German folksong archive). The Nazi regime popularized the archive's work in keeping with its nationalist cultural policies – ironic given Friedlaender's Jewish heritage.
Friedlaender's edited several popular song anthologies for the Leipzig music publisherCF Peters including works byRobert Schumann,Felix Mendelssohn,Carl Loewe,Ludwig van Beethoven, seven volumes of Schubert songs, a collection of folk songs, and a "Choral Manual." Some of these editions are still in print today. In his researches, Friedlaender discovered several previously unknown songs by Schubert. Hismagnum opus is a two-volume study of German song in the 18th century (Cotta,Stuttgart 1902).
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