Rudolf Gaehler

Rudolf Gaehler (* February 11, 1941, in Hoyerswerda) is a German violinist.

[1] Rudolf Gaehler studied the violin with Rolph Schroeder in Kassel and Vittorio Brero in Berlin.

[2] Rudolf Gaehler is one of the few violinists to master the modern curved-bow technique.

[3] For a direct comparison of different interpretations, Rudolf Gaehler played at the Wuerzburg 57th Bach Festival in 1982 together with Dimitri Sitkowetski; with Mark Kaplan in the ARD television broadcast on the occasion of Johann Sebastian Bach’s 300th birthday in 1985; and with Thomas Zehetmair during the symposium “Sei Solo” of the European String Teachers Association (President: Sir Yehudi Menuhin) and the international Bach Academy Stuttgart in 1990 (artistic director: Helmut Rilling).

[4] Radio and television broadcasts as well as gramophone and CD recordings illustrate the wide range of his repertoire and the rich tonal spectrum produced with the normal, traditional bow as well as with the curved bow[5][6] Apart from his activities as a soloist, Rudolf Gaehler gives master classes at home and abroad, and appears as a specialist at conferences, symposia and festivals.