Gerhard Röthler was a professor at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg

Salzburg

-Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...

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Röthler was born in Breslau (Wrocław) in the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia

Province of Lower Silesia

The Province of Lower Silesia was a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1919 to 1945. Between 1938 and 1941 it was reunited with Upper Silesia as the Silesia Province. The capital of Lower Silesia was Breslau...

. He was given piano lessons from Professor Hirsch-Kaufmann and violin lessons from Elishewath Szépazsy. In 1939 he immigrated to Palestine

Palestine

Palestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....

. He worked as a farm worker as well as gardener and studied double bass.

After engagements at the opera of Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

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 and at the Yemenite theatre INBAL

Inbal

-Organizations:* INBAL - Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, the national Mexican institute of fine arts and literature* Inbal Dance Theater, an Israeli dance company-People:* Inbal is a surname, and can refer to:...

, Röthler finished his degree at the conservatories in Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

 and Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

 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

Harpsichord

A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...

. He died in Salzburg.

His son David Röthler worked in Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, established in 1953 through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament....

 1993/94 with the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service

Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service

The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service is an alternative to Austria's compulsory national military service / alternative service founded in 1992. Since 1998 it is part of the Austrian Service Abroad...

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