Max Smith

Thomas Max Smith was born in New York on December 26, 1874. He received the A.B. from Yale in 1898, the same year as Charles Ives. He earned a law degree from Columbia and passed the New York bar, but never practiced. In 1909 he married Mary Hardy. They had no children. Smith studied music for many years, beginning at the age of eight; his teachers included Horatio Parker and Samuel Sanford at Yale. He served as a music editor and critic at the New York Press (1903-1916) and the New York American (1916-1919 and again in 1923). Thereafter he worked intermittently as a foreign music correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune . He died of a cerebral embolism on June 7, 1935.