Gerhard Röthler

Gerhard Röthler ( born October 29, 1920 in Breslau, † October 18th 1999 in Salzburg ) was a professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Life

Gerhard Röthler received in Wroclaw piano lessons from Professor Hirsch -Kaufmann and violin lessons from Elishewah Szépazsy. In 1939 he was able to emigrate to Palestine and thereby survive the Holocaust. He worked as a farm laborer and gardener and studied the double bass. In 1945 he received from the military service of the British military ENSA a first engagement.

After engagements at the Opera Tel Aviv and the Yemeni dance theater INBAL Gerhard Röthler took from 1958 to 1963 at the National Colleges of Music in Cologne and Berlin its regular music studies after. In Berlin, he first worked as a music therapist in the clinical area at the State Mental Hospital Berlin-Spandau. From the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD) him a scholarship to the study of the state of music therapy in the U.S. (1965 /66) has been granted.

Since 1968, he taught at the Mozarteum music theory. In 1981 he was appointed full professor of harpsichord and music theory.

In 1983 the translated by Gerhard Röthler on behalf of Artemis & Winkler publisher and newly revised book Playing the Harpsichord.

His son David Röthler made ​​in 1993/94 memorial service at Yad Vashem ..