Richard hageman composer biography

Biography.
Richard Hageman was born on 9 July 1881 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands.
Richard Hageman was a Dutch-born American conductor, pianist, and composer.

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Richard Hageman

For other people with this last name, see Hageman (surname).

Richard Hageman
Hageman in 1909
Birth name	Richard Hageman
Born	(1881-07-09)July 9, 1881 Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
Died	March 6, 1966(1966-03-06) (aged 84) Beverly Hills, California, United States
Genres	20th-century classical musicFilm scores
Occupation(s)	Composer, Songwriter, Conductor, Pianist
Instrument	Piano
Years active	1899–1954
Formerly of	John Ford, Frank Lloyd, Merian C. Cooper

Musical artist

Richard Hageman (9 July 1881 – 6 March 1966) was a Dutch-born American conductor, pianist, and composer.

Biography

Richard Hageman was born in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. He was the son of Maurits Hageman of Zutphen, a violinist, pianist and conductor, and of Hester Westerhoven of Amsterdam, a singer who performed under the name Francisca Stoetz.^[1] A child prodigy, he was a concert pianist by the age of six. He studied at the conservatories of Amsterdam and Brussels.^[1] As a young man he was an accomp

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Richard Hageman

From Holland to Hollywood

by Nico de Villiers (Author)Kathryn Kalinak (Author)Asing Walthaus (Author)

The Arts

Summary

Richard Hageman (1881-1966) was celebrated during his lifetime as a conductor, pianist, vocal coach, and composer. His art songs put him solidly in the vanguard of mid-century composers and he was routinely referred to in the same context as Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, William Grant Still, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. His opera Caponsacchi was the first American opera to premiere in Freiburg-im-Breisgau and Vienna. A conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, Hageman knew the great singers of the age, conducting Enrico Caruso and Geraldine Farrar, and accompanying Nellie Melba and Emmy Destinn. He wrote songs for John McCormack and Lotte Lehmann. By the late 1930s Hageman was composing in Hollywood, scoring westerns for John Ford and earning six Academy Award nominations. In Hollywood, he had drinks with John Wayne, rubbed shoulders with Jeanette

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Richard Hageman: From Holland to Hollywood

Nico de Villiers, Kathryn Kalinak, and Asing Walthaus RICHARD HAGEMAN From Holland to Hollywood Nico de Villiers, Kathryn Kalinak and Asing Walthaus - 978-1-4331-5583-3 Downloaded from PubFactory at 07/16/2021 03:53:36PM by j.pavlovic@peterlang.com via Peter Lang Group AG and Jackie Pavlovic Richard Hageman (1881-1966) was celebrated during his lifetime as a conductor, pianist, vocal coach, and composer. Richard Hageman: From Holland to Hollywood is the ﬁrst critical biography to reconstruct Hageman’s colorful life while recreating the cultural milieu in which he ﬂourished: opera in America during the ﬁrst half of the twentieth century and ﬁlm scoring in Hollywood during the heyday of the studio system. Here Hageman’s most important works are analyzed in depth for the ﬁrst time, from his famous art song “Do Not Go, My Love” and his opera Caponsacchi, to his ﬁlm scores such as She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and 3 Godfathers. “Richard Hageman remains a cherished but forgotten chapter in the history of American music. With this new in-depth scho