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ANDRÉ GERTLER (BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, 26 JULY, 1907 – BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, 23 JULY, 1998)

 

 

 

 

Andre Gertler (Hungarian name Gertler Endre) was born in Budapest, Hungary. The talent for arts manifested in his family in several fields: one of his two brothers, Pál Gertler, became a painter while Viktor Gertler was a famous movie director in Hungary. He started his violin studies at the age of six in Budapest, finishing it at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with a degree recital in 1925, where his teachers were József Bloch, Oszkár Studer, Jenő Hubay, Leo Weiner (chamber music), and Zoltán Kodály (composition). As many other Hubay-students neither did Gertler continue his career in Hungary, He settled in Brussels in 1928, with recommendations of his teachers, where he could improve his technique by Eugène Ysa e. After his first concerts in Brussels followed several concert engagements in Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, France and in Italy. He became a teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, in Belgium. He founded the Gertler Quartett with the young violinist Baumann in 1931, leading his quartet he toured the world’s stages for two decades (1931-1951). They performed yearly in Budapest between 1932 and 1936, including Bartók’s quartets among others in their programs. His reputation in Belgium is shown by the fact, that already in 1937 he was a member of the Jury of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, but he was on the jury of several other international competitions, the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in 1952. (Poznan), where he made the acquaintance of the first prize winner Igor Oistrakh he tied to him a lifelong friendship. He was married to the Danish pianist Diane Andersen, with whom he regularly concertized and recorded. Gertler was a great admirer of Béla Bartók. He recorded the complete violin works of the composer for the Supraphon label, including his two concertos, that was awarded Grand Prix du Disque in Paris (1967). He is considered one of the best players of Bartók’s music. He made the acquaintance of many of the twentieth century’s composers, as Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Paul Hindemith and Karl Amadeus Hartmann. Gertler had a respectable career as a pedagogue, as well. He joined the staff of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in 1940, first as chamber music professor, he was appointed the professor of violin a few years later – a post he held until the age of 70. In 1954, he became the professor at the Cologne Academy of Music for three years and ten years later, in 1964, he received a professorship at the College of Music in Hannover. Among his foremost students were Joshua Epstein, Rudolf Werthen, Yair Kless, André Rieu, Yossi Zivoni, Carola Nasdala, Hedwig Pirlet-Reiners, Michel Bessler.

 

  

TRACKLIST

  

 

André Gertler, Alban Berg / Béla Bartok ‎– Concerto Pour Violon / Sonate Pour Violon Seul

Classical

Modern, Twelve-tone

1954

Alban Berg Concerto Pour Violon Et Orchestre

Andante – Allegretto

Allegro – Cadenza – Tempo Primo – Adagio – Coda

Bela Bartok Sonate Pour Violon Seul

Tempo Di Ciacona

Fuga

Melodia

Presto

 

Arthur Honegger / Paul Hindemith ‎– Sonata No. 2 For Violin And Piano / Sonata For Viola Op. 25 No. 1

Supraphon ‎– LPM 361

Vinyl, LP, 10″, Mono

Czechoslovakia

Classical

Modern

Sonata No. 2 For Violin And Piano (1919)

Composed By – Arthur Honegger

Allegro Cantabile

Larghetto

III. Vivace Assai

Sonata For Viola Op. 25 No. 1

Composed By – Paul Hindemith

Broadly

Very Fresh And Strict

Very Slow

Very Animated

Slow And Very Expressive