Robert Gerle

Robert Gerle (1 April 1924 – 29 October 2005) was an American classical violinist and music educator of Hungarian origin.

He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and at the Hungarian National Conservatory.

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.

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.

Gerle taught violin at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore and at the Mannes School of Music in New York.