# Robert Gerle > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Robert_Gerle > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Robert_Gerle.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gerle > Source revision: 1356136489 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{More citations needed|date=October 2019}} '''Robert Gerle''' (1 April 1924 – 29 October 2005) was an American classical violinist and [music educator](/source/Music_education) of Hungarian origin. == Life == Born in [Abbazia](/source/Opatija), Gerle was a violin student of {{Ill|Géza de Kresz|de}}. He studied at the [Franz Liszt Academy of Music](/source/Franz_Liszt_Academy_of_Music) and at the Hungarian National Conservatory. As a Jew he came during the Second World War to a labour camp, from which he fled in 1945. Via Paris he came to Luxembourg, where he worked for a short time as a radio soloist. In 1950 he came to the US as a scholarship holder of the [University of Illinois](/source/University_of_Illinois). In the 1960s he appeared as a violin soloist in the US and Europe and recorded works by [Ludwig van Beethoven](/source/Ludwig_van_Beethoven), [Samuel Barber](/source/Samuel_Barber) and others. In 1965, he was a soloist with the [Naumburg Orchestral Concerts](/source/Naumburg_Orchestral_Concerts), in the Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park, in the summer series. {{Cite web |title=Notable Events and Performers |url=https://naumburgconcerts.org/notable-events-and-performers |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=Naumburg Orchestral Concerts |language=en-US}} For his performance of all Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano with his wife, the pianist [Marilyn Neeley](/source/Marilyn_Neeley), he received an [Emmy Award](/source/Emmy_Award) for television in 1970. In the same year he married Neeley. Gerle taught violin at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore and at the [Mannes School of Music](/source/Mannes_School_of_Music) in New York. From 1972 he taught at the [University of Maryland, Baltimore County](/source/University_of_Maryland%2C_Baltimore_County) and at the [Catholic University of America](/source/Catholic_University_of_America). He also conducted the Friday Morning Music Club and the Washington Sinfonia. Gerle published the violin textbooks ''The Art of Bowing Practice''[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27935957 ''The Art of Bowing Practice : The Expressive Bow Technique''] on WorldCat (1991) and ''The Art of Practicing the Violin''[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13768385 ''The Art of Practicing the Violin''] on WorldCat (1983) as well as memoirs entitled ''Playing It by Heart: Wonderful Things Can Happen Any Day''[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62421030 ''Playing It by Heart: Wonderful Things Can Happen Any Day''] on WorldCat (2005). Gere died in [Hyattsville, Maryland](/source/Hyattsville%2C_Maryland), at age 81. == Further reading == * {{Cite encyclopedia |author1=[Wilibald Gurlitt](/source/Wilibald_Gurlitt) |author2=[Carl Dahlhaus](/source/Carl_Dahlhaus) |encyclopedia=Riemann Musik-Lexikon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes |entry=Gerle, Robert |volume=4. Personenteil A–K |edition= 12th completely reworked |publisher=B. Schotts-Söhne |location=Mainz |date=1972 |pages=416}} * {{Cite book |author=[Nicolas Slonimsky](/source/Nicolas_Slonimsky) |title=Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians |edition= 7 |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |location=London, New York, Toronto |date=1984 |pages=816 |isbn=0-19-311335-X}} == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/30/AR2005103001203.html ''Concert Violinist Robert Gerle Dies''], Washington Post, 31 October 2005 * [https://archive.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/11/04/robert_gerle_concert_violinist_was_a_teacher_and_author_at_81/ ''Robert Gerle, concert violinist was a teacher and author; at 81''], The Boston Globe, 4 November 2005 * [http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/r/red00152a.php Classical.net Violin Concerti Frederick Delius: Violin Concerto; Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto; Robert Gerle, violin; Vienna State Opera Orchestra/Robert Zeller] * [https://library.umbc.edu/speccoll/findingaids/coll134.php Robert Gerle Papers] in der Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery. University of Maryland, Baltimore County * [http://classicalmusicianstoza.blogspot.ca/2014/06/robert-gerle-hungarian-american.html Foto Robert Gerle, Tournee Süd-Afrika, 1972] * {{Discogs artist}} {{Portal bar|Classical music|United States}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gerle, Robert}} Category:20th-century American classical violinists Category:American male classical violinists Category:American music educators Category:Franz Liszt Academy of Music alumni Category:1924 births Category:2005 deaths Category:People from Opatija Category:20th-century American male musicians Category:Writers from Primorje-Gorski Kotar County --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Robert Gerle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gerle) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gerle?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). 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