Max Reiter (20 October 1905 Trieste, Austro-Hungarian Empire – 13 December 1950 San Antonio) was an Italian-born American conductor who founded the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra in 1939 and developed it to the rank of a major symphony orchestra.
When he was ten years old, his family moved to Munich, where he continued his middle-school education and went on to attend a university.
He studied conducting with Bruno Walter and, at the insistence of his father, earned a doctorate in law.
He arrived in New York in January 1939, where the Steinway family advised him to go to Texas, a place they felt held employment potential.
Pleased with Reiter's endorsement, the San Antonio Symphony Society offered Alessandro a three-year contract in January 1951.