Konrad Ragossnig

Konrad Ragossnig has wide and varying music interests, saving and posting music for both acoustic guitar and lute. He researched in Vienna with Karl Scheit and earned the Concours International de Acoustic guitar in Paris in 1961. Then began touring, carrying out with orchestras throughout European countries and with chamber ensembles like the Barchet Quartet Stuttgart, Berner String Quartet, Lucerne Event Strings, Kyndel String Quartet Stockholm, as well as the Prague String Quartet. He likes playing chamber functions where the acoustic guitar continues to be neglected, such as for example in Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, which he offers performed with Peter Schreier in the Salzburg Event. Other performers he spent some time working with consist of flutists Hans-Martin Linde, Aurèle Nicolet, and Peter-Lukas Graf; tenors Kurt Equiluz and Ian Partridge; cellist Marek Jerie; and his boy, harpsichordist Thomas Ragossnig. Ragossnig is generally bought at music celebrations in cities all over the world, including Vienna, Ansbach, Berlin, Luxembourg, Paris, and Osaka. From 1964 until 1983 Ragossnig taught at Basel, and took on the professorship in Vienna. He in addition has been a visitor teacher in Züwealthy and teaches professional classes together with a lot of his shows far away. His repertoire runs from Renaissance lute music to modern electric guitar music, and he provides premiered functions by two dozen composers, such as for example Hans Erich Apostel, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Friedrich Cerha, Hans Werner Henze, and Pierre Wissmer. Furthermore to teaching and executing, he provides edited and acquired released over 70 ratings of lute and electric guitar music, which range from basic strategy to agreements of works such as for example Falla’s Collection Populaire Espagnole (organized for cello and electric guitar), and executing editions of functions like Bach’s Fugue for Lute, BWV 1000. His recordings are located on several labels and also have gained the Grand Prix du disque and Edison honours. His Archiv documenting Musik für Laute was selected as “Electric guitar and Lute Music Record from the Century” with the German newspaper, Fono Forum.