Max Drischner (31 January 1891 – 25 April 1971) was a German composer, Kantor, organist, and harpsichordist.
After completing his A-levels at the grammar school in Züllichau, he started theological studies in 1910 at Leipzig and Breslau.
However, after seven semesters he gave this up in order to study the organ, piano and harpsichord at the Berlin Music Academy.
From 1927, he traveled at least six times to Norway, in order to study Norwegian folk melodies which would form the basis for many of his compositions.
After short stops in resettlement quarters at Magdeburg and Eimersleben, Max Drischner was for two months the cantor and organist at the Augustinerkirche in Erfurt.
In Herrenberg Drischner was the organist and cantor in the Stiftskirche, but this lasted only a few months: In May 1948, after a five-month stay in the University Hospital of Tübingen it was confirmed that due to illness he would be unable to continue in his appointment.
Albert Schweitzer played a highly meaningful role in Max Drischner's life.
Drischner gave an account of their meetings in "The friendship between the jungle doctor and a Silesian cantor".
The three Drischners found their final resting place at the cemetery in Lautenthal in the Harz mountains.
Parallel to that are his compositions which according to his own opinion are captured improvisations that in the line of the ritual want to be intelligible to each church member.
They are distinguished by an ever tonal melodic that is even with recitative texts songlike and beholden especially to the Silesian and also the Nordic folklore."
Dr. Paul Kast, Drischer's son-in-law and Bach specialist, handed over Drischner's estate, including all manuscripts, to cantor Matthias Müller shortly before his death, as documented by documentary evidence.