Gerhard Röthler

Gerhard Röthler (29 October 1920 – 18 October 1999) was a professor at the Mozarteum University of

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. Röthler was born in Breslau (Wrocław) in the

Prussian Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an e ...

Province of Lower Silesia The Province of Lower Silesia (german: Provinz Niederschlesien; Silesian German: ''Provinz Niederschläsing''; pl, Prowincja Dolny Śląsk; szl, Prowincyjŏ Dolny Ślōnsk) was a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1919 to 1945. Between ...

. He was given piano lessons from Professor Hirsch-Kaufmann and violin lessons from Elishewath Szépazsy. In 1939 he immigrated to Palestine. He worked as a farm worker as well as gardener and studied double bass. After engagements at the opera of

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and at the Yemenite theatre INBAL, Röthler finished his degree at the conservatories in

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and

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in 1963. In Berlin he worked as a music therapist at the psychiatric clinic. In 1968 he started teaching at the Mozarteum Salzburg. In 1981 he was appointed to a professorship for cembalo/harpsichord and music theory. In 1983 Röthler translated the book ''Playing the Harpsichord''. He died in Salzburg. His son David Röthler worked in

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1993/94 with the

Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service Gedenkdienst is the concept of facing and taking responsibility for the darkest chapters of one's own country's history while ideally being financially supported by one's own country's government to do so. Founded in Austria in 1992 by Andreas Ma ...

. Jewish musicians Austrian musicologists Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine Musicians from Wrocław People from the Province of Lower Silesia 1920 births 1999 deaths 20th-century German musicologists Academics of Mozarteum University Salzburg Israeli emigrants to Austria {{Germany-musicologist-stub