Born in 1888 in Budapest, she was the daughter of Josef Geyer, a police doctor who played the violin himself. When she was 5 years old she started playing the violin, with remarkable results for someone who had not practiced at all. She subsequently studied under
Jenő Hubay.
Willy Burkhard dedicated his 1943 violin concerto jointly to Geyer and
Paul Sacher. and taught at the Zürich Conservatory from 1934 to 1953. (The Zürich Conservatory merged in 1999 into the School of Music, Drama, and Dance (HMT), itself merged in 2007 into the
Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). She schooled numerous musicians, among them composer
Klaus Huber. == References ==