July 4, 2026
Athens, GR 14 C
Expand search form
Blog

Art collector, 89, is Salzburg’s main sponsor

Art  collector, 89, is Salzburg’s main sponsor

The Würth Group has signed on to be the Salzburg Festival’s main sponsor from 2025.

The group is a $22 billion business that makes industrial and domestic attachments and owns a chair of appliance supermarkets.

Its chairman Reinhold Würth is a considerable art collector who has loaned major works to the city of Salzburg and elsewhere.

He said: ‘I have a great soft spot for the arts, for literature, architecture and music. To me, the latter is indeed the highest of all art forms and a special delight. If I can return home after a concert with a melody in my ear, that’s a particularly good day.’

The post Art collector, 89, is Salzburg’s main sponsor appeared first on Slippedisc.

Previous Article

French director, 77, is charged with rape

Next Article

After 51 years, John Neumaier steps down

You might be interested in …

Christoph von Dohnanyi, personal

Christoph von Dohnanyi, personal

In 1991, a few months after my book The Maestro Myth was published, I had a call from Dohnanyi, who was in his fourth season as principal conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra. ‘We’ve never met,’ […]

BBC hires American principal guest

BBC hires American principal guest

Edwin Outwater, music director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Canada from 2007 to 2017, has been named Principal Guest Conductor and curator of the BBC Concert Orchestra. The chief conductor is Anna Maria Helsing, Not […]

How English is Tony Pappano

How English is Tony Pappano

A glowing profile in the New York Times failed to mention Sir Antonio Pappano’s less than happy encounters with orchestras in the US, where he spent his teenage years. Something, somehow, didn’t click. English music, […]