Robert Gerle

Born in Abbazia, Gerle was a violin student of {{Ill|Géza de Kresz|de}}. He studied at the 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. In the 1960s he appeared as a violin soloist in the US and Europe and recorded works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Samuel Barber and others.

In 1965, he was a soloist with the 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, he received an 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 in New York. From 1972 he taught at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and at the 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, at age 81.

• {{Cite encyclopedia |author1=Wilibald Gurlitt |author2=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 |title=Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians |edition= 7 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=London, New York, Toronto |date=1984 |pages=816 |isbn=0-19-311335-X}}

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• [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/30/AR2005103001203.html Concert Violinist Robert Gerle Dies], Washington Post, 31 October 2005
• [http://www.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]
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