Robert Gerle

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Robert Gerle (born April 1, 1924 in Abbazia , † October 29, 2005 in Hyattsville , Maryland ) was an American violinist and music teacher of Hungarian origin.

Life

Gerle was a violin student of Géza de Kresz . He studied at the Franz Liszt Music Academy and the Hungarian National Conservatory . As a Jew, he was sent to a labor camp during World War II, from which he fled in 1945. He came to Luxembourg via Paris, where he worked for a short time as a radio soloist. In 1950 he came to the United States on a scholarship from the University of Illinois . In the 1960s he performed as a violin soloist in the USA and Europe and made recordings of works by Ludwig van Beethoven , Samuel Barbers and others.

He received an Emmy Award in 1970 for the performance of all of Beethoven's sonatas for violin and piano with his wife, the pianist Marilyn Neeley , for television . In the same year he married Neeley. Gerle worked as a violin teacher at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore and at the Mannes College of Music in New York. From 1972 he taught at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the Catholic University of America . He also conducted the Friday Morning Music Club and conducted the Washington Sinfonia .

Gerle published the violin textbooks The Art of Practicing the Violin (1983) and The Art of Bowing Practice (1991) and memoirs under the title Playing It by Heart: Wonderful Things Can Happen Any Day (2005).

literature

  • Wilibald Gurlitt , Carl Dahlhaus (ed.): Riemann Music Lexicon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Gerle, Robert. 12th completely revised edition. 4. Personal section A – KB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1972, p. 416 (first edition: 1882).
  • Nicolas Slonimsky : Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians . Gerle, Robert. 7th edition. Oxford University Press, London, New York, Toronto 1984, ISBN 0-19-311335-X , pp. 816 .

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personal data
SURNAME Gerle, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American violinist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Opatija
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2005
Place of death Hyattsville , Maryland