 
Così fan tutte
Don Carlo, Falstaff
Die Fledermaus
Concert 2001
Narrated Music
Shir Ha Shirim
Notes
Paumgartner
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Camerata Fan and arts sponsor Wolfgang Strobl
Recognisable features: ties embellished with music, musical instruments, musicians, composers. About 200 of them. Wolfgang Strobl reveals his true passion at first sight. When he is together with the principal conductor of the Camerata, Sir Roger Norrington, one might almost think they belong to a secret society. The conductor wears socks with music worked into the pattern, the other a musical tie.
Wolfgang Immerschitt presents a profile of the Camerata fan Wolfgang Strobl.
Symbiosis of money and the arts
The managing director in Salzburg of the S-insurance company and the
British conductor do indeed have a great deal in common: Wolfgang Strobl
was recently appointed to the board of the renowned Camerata. Salzburg's
elite chamber orchestra - founded half a century ago by Bernhard Paumgartner,
who later became president of the Salzburg Festival - has been generously
sponsored for several years by S-insurance.
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| Wolfgang Strobl - Photo: Elfriede Lindner |
The driving force behind this commitment is Wolfgang Strobl, who lives out the symbiosis of money and the arts more than any other representative of finance. After all it is said that it is better to talk to bankers and insurers about art and with artists it's best to talk about money. Wolfgang Strobl has a command of both fields. But what he really loves, besides his wife Irene and two children, is music.
Through the Sparkassen Versicherung Wolfgang Strobl is also a patron
of the Salzburg Festival and it goes without saying that he plays a musical
instrument. He studied the piano and organ with Professor Schroth and
Professor Kreuzer in Linz. He also trained as a singer and was a member
of the cathedral choir in Linz under its cathedral kapellmeister Professor
Joseph Kronsteiner for 25 years. Of course Wolfgang Strobl knows almost
all the most important operas and principle works of classical music and
in his house in Salzburg Leopoldskron he has created a refuge where there
is room for music and nothing else. It is not at all a matter of course
that a man who during the day is committed to selling people insurance
and private pensions is to be found in the evenings in the concert hall,
the score on his knees, immersed in sound.
A sponsor without any ifs or buts
It's a great pleasure to speak to Wolfgang Strobl about sponsoring the arts. He is emotionally and musically committed to being a patron and a patron without any ifs or buts. This also explains why he is so highly appreciated in the circle of friends of the Camerata.
Dr. Michael Harrer is the general director of S-Insurance and Wolfgang Strobl knows that he is supported by a boss who has a strong interest in the arts too and is well aware of the fact that besides providing financial services, other values give his company a distinctive note. Brochures published by this major insurance enterprise claim that "Sponsoring art and culture is an essential and integral part of our enterprise philosophy under the motto 'For the sunny side of life'". A motto tailor-made for the two directors.
The sunny side of life also includes the dimensions joie de vivre, humour, wit, art and culture. Wolfgang Strobl has found many friends who share his love of life with and in music.