Max Goberman was born in Philadelphia. He studied violin with Leopold Auer, and conducting with Fritz Reiner at the Curtis Institute of Music. He was a violinist with the Philadelphia Orchestra before Reiner's recommendation gained him his first conducting appointment. In 1941 his first Broadway job was as Musical Director for three ballets at the Majestic Theater. Max Goberman's first musical was Bernstein'sOn the Town in 1944. He later premiered West Side Story in 1957.

The following year Goberman financed a recording project in which he intended to conduct all the music of Antonio Vivaldi. His untimely death five years later curtailed this project after recording only 70 works by Vivaldi, the Brandeburg Concertos by Bach and 40 of Haydn's symphonies using new editions prepared form him by H.C. Robbins-Landon (1926-2009). The recordings were published with miniature scores. Aaron Nathanson was his recording engineer for this unfinished project.

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