In addition to performing, guitarist and lutenist Konrad Ragossnig edited and published many arrangements of music adapted from scores for other instruments. He was also an important educator and the author of a textbook about guitar technique. Ragossnig left a substantial recording catalog. His recordings continued to appear in reissues; Spanish Guitar Recital, recorded in 1969, was issued by the Supraphon label in 2025.
Ragossnig was born on May 6, 1932, in Klagenfurt, in western Austria. He attended the Wiener Musikhochschule in Vienna from 1954 to 1957, with Karl Scheit a...