Max Friedlaender (musicologist)

Max Friedlaender (12 October 1852, Brieg/Brzeg, Province of Silesia, Prussia – 2 May 1934, Berlin) was a German bass singer, music editor, and musicologist.

Friedlaender studied voice with well-known teachers Manuel Garcia in London and Julius Stockhausen in Frankfurt, both of the bel-canto school.

He succeeded Rochus von Liliencron as general editor for a Book of National Songs for Men's Choirs first proposed by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1906.

In the 1920s, Friedlaender was closely involved in the formation of the Deutsches 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.