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

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, and

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Biography

Richard Hageman was born in

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. He was the son of Maurits Hageman of

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, a violinist, pianist and conductor, and of Hester Westerhoven of

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, a singer who performed under the name Francisca Stoetz.Richard Hageman
at 401DutchOperas.com A child prodigy, he was a concert pianist by the age of six. He studied at the conservatories of

and

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. As a young man he was an accompanist for singers and with the ''Nederlandsche Opera'', which he conducted for the first time in 1899. He became the artistic director briefly in 1903, the same year he married the soprano Rosina van Ophemert, who took the stage name Rosina van Dyke/van Dyck (Rosina van Dijk was the maiden name of her grandmother). For a short time Hageman was accompanist to Mathilde Marchesi in

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.Miller and Meckna, Grove Music Online He travelled to the

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in 1906 to accompany

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on a national tour. He stayed and eventually became an American citizen in 1925. Rosina sang at the

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, but the couple had an acrimonious divorce in 1916. His second and third wives were also sopranosRenee Thornton and Eleanore Rogers. He was a conductor and pianist for the

between 1908 and 1922, and 1935-1936, coach of the opera department at the Curtis Institute from 1925 to 1930, and music director of the Chicago Civic Opera and the Ravinia Park Opera for seven years. Hageman was a coach in voice and collaborative at the

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in the 1920s, where one of his notable piano students was Ray Turner, who went on to play with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, worked as the staff pianist at

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for over 20 years, and was a popular recording and concert artist. Hageman was a guest conductor at orchestras such as the

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, and Los Angeles symphony orchestras. He conducted the

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summer concerts for four years, and from 1938-1943 he conducted at the

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summer concerts. He is known to the film community for his work as an actor and film score composer, most notably for his work on several

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films in the late 1930s and after the war in the late 1940s. He shared an

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for his score to Ford's 1939 western ''

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'' and was nominated for the score of '' This Woman Is Mine'' (1941). He played minor roles in eleven movies, for example as opera conductor Carlo Santi in '' The Great Caruso''. He became a member of

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in 1950. Hageman composed some larger concert works for voice. His 1931

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''Caponsacchi'', first performed in

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with the title ''Tragödie in Arezzo'' in 1932, was staged at the

in 1937 with Mario Chamlee in the title role. His "concert drama" ''The Crucible'' was performed in

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in 1943. While his large musical compositions are rarely heard today, a few of his

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s are well-known and highly regarded, especially "Do Not Go, My Love", a setting of a

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poem. He was a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity. He died, aged 84, in

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Larger musical works and chamber music

Stage: *''Caponsacchi'' (Op. 3, R. Browning), 1931 *''I Hear America Call'' (ballad, R.V. Grossman), Bar, SATB, orch, 1942 *''The Crucible'' (oratorio, B.C. Kennedy), 1943 Orchestra: *''Overture 'In a Nutshell; Suite, str Chamber: *''October Musings,'' violin and piano, G. Schirmer, 1937 *''Recit and Romance,'' vc, pf, 1961

Published songs

*Do Not Go, My Love (

), Winthrop Rogers/ G. Schirmer, 1917 *May Night (

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), 1917 *The Cunning Little Thing (Unknown Author), Winthrop Rogers, 1917 *At the Well (

), Winthrop Rogers/G. Schirmer, 1919 *Happiness ( Jean Ingelow), Winthrop Rogers/G. Schirmer, 1917/1920 *Charity (

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), G. Schirmer, 1921 *Nature's Holiday (T. Nash), 1921 *Ton coeur est un tombeau (Jacques Boria), G. Schirmer 1921 *Animal Crackers (C. Morley), G. Schirmer, 1922 *Evening (Anonymous text),

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, 1922 *Christ Went Up Into the Hills (Katherine Adams), Carl Fischer, 1924 *Me Company Along ( James Stephens), Carl Fischer, 1925 *Grief (Ernest Dowson), Carl Fischer, 1928 *Dawn shall over Lethe Break (

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, 1934 *The Donkey ( G. K. Chesterton),

, 1934 *The Little Dancers (

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, 1935 *The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (F. W. Bourdillon),

, 1935 *Christmas Eve, A Joyful Song (

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), Galaxy, 1936 (arranged for mixed chorus by Philip James, Galaxy, 1937) *The Rich Man (Franklin P. Adams), Galaxy, 1937 *Song without Words (vocalise for coloratura voice with piano), Carl Fischer, 1937 *This Thing I do: a soliloquy for baritone voice with piano accompaniment (Arthur Goodrich), Carl Fischer, 1937 *Music I Heard with You ( Conrad Aiken), Galaxy, 1938 *Sundown (Lew Sarett), Carl Fischer, 1938 and 1942 *To a Golden-haired girl (

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), Carl Fischer, 1938 *Miranda (

), Galaxy, 1940 *Mother (Margaret Widdemer), Galaxy, 1940 *Love in the winds (Richard Hovey), Galaxy, 1941 *Little Things ( Witter Bynner), Galaxy, 1943 *Voices ( Witter Bynner), Galaxy, 1943 *Don Juan Gomez ( Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth), Galaxy, 1944 *Fear not the Night (Robert Nathan), Carl Fischer, 1944 *Lift Thou the Burdens, Father, a sacred song ( Katherine Call Simonds), Galaxy, 1944 *En una noche serena/Alone in the night (Andres de Segurola, tr. Robert B. Falk), Galaxy, 1945 *Contrasts (Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth), Galaxy, 1946 *The Fiddler of Dooney (

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), G. Schirmer, 1946 *A Lady comes to an Inn (Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth), Galaxy, 1947 *The Fox and the Raven (Guy Wetmore Carryl), Galaxy, 1948 *The Summons (

), Galaxy, 1949 *Is it you? (Robert Nathan), Galaxy, 1951 *Trade Winds (

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), Galaxy, 1952 *Scherzetto ( Alfred Kreymborg), Galaxy, 1952 *All Paths Lead to you (Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff), Galaxy, 1953 *Let me Grow Lovely (Karle Wilson Baker), Carl Fischer, 1953 *Sleep Sweet (Ellen Huntington Gates), Galaxy, 1953 *Walk slowly (Adelaide Love), Carl Fischer, 1953 *I see His Blood upon the Rose (Joseph M. Plunkett), Galaxy, 1954 *Velvet Shoes ( Elinor Wylie), Galaxy, 1954 *How to go and Forget ( Edwin Markham), G. Schirmer, 1956 *Praise (Seumas O'Sullivan), G. Schirmer, 1956 *Under the Willows: Shoshone love song (Mary Hunter Austin), G. Schirmer, 1957 *When the Wind is Low (Cale Young Rice), Galaxy, 1957 *Die Stadt/The Town ( Theodor Storm, tr. Robert Nathan), G. Schirmer, 1958 *Betterliebe/Beggar's Love ( Theodor Storm, tr. Robert Nathan), G. Schirmer, 1958 *Am Himmelstor/At Heaven's Door ( Conrad F. Meyer, tr. Robert Nathan), G. Schirmer, 1958 *Nocturne ( Jean Moréas, tr. Robert Nathan), G. Schirmer, 1960 *So love returns, (Robert Nathan), Ricordi, 1960

Film scores

Hageman is credited for the scores of about 20 films, and his compositions have been used in many additional films. Seven of the scores were for films directed by

; Kathryn Marie Kalinak has written that Ford "got great work out of the people he worked with, and often those he was hardest on produced the best work of their careers. One of those was Richard Hageman, the Philadelphia Orchestra notwithstanding." : *''

'' (1939) *'' The Howards of Virginia'' (1940) *'' The Long Voyage Home'' (1940) *'' The Frozen Ghost'' (1945) *'' The Fugitive'' (1947) *'' Fort Apache'' (1948) *'' 3 Godfathers'' (1948) *'' She Wore a Yellow Ribbon'' (1949) *'' Wagon Master'' (1950). *'' Adventure in Vienna'' (1952)

Footnotes

References

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External links

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Richard Hageman Society
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