Richard hageman 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 [1881-1966]

Richard Hageman was a musician’s musician. He was a child prodigy who performed as a concert pianist by the age of six in his native the Netherlands. During the remainder of his musical career he was a pianist, conductor, composer, songwriter, music educator and the occasional actor. As a young man he was an accompanist for vocalists with the Amsterdam Royal Opera Company, and he became one of the Opera Company’s conductors in 1899, when he was only 18 years old.

Hageman studied music at the Brussels Conservatory of Music from which he received a Doctorate of Music degree. He also studied at the Royal Conservatory of Amsterdam. And to top it of his studies at both conservatories were paid for by scholarships. So at a very young age he had reached the pinnacle in the musical field in his native country.

So it was not surprising that shortly after reaching the acme of his career in the Netherlands, he began to look for opportunities elsewhere. And that opportunity occurred at some point in time between 1901 and 1906, when he accompanied the

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RICHARD HAGEMAN, from Holland to Hollywood by Nico de Villiers, Kathryn Kalinak, and Asing Walthaus

252 pp, click here for the publisher and details

All lovers of classical vocal art know the song “Do not go, my love” a setting of a Rabindranath Tagore poem and composed by Richard Hageman (1881-1966). Yet few -if any- know the American conductor was actually born and raised in Leeuwarden in the Netherlands . Hageman had quite a fascinating life and his life story has now been written – in English. There was already an admirable effort in a previous edition published in Hageman's homecountry (click here), but this new and definitive biography by far supersedes the previous work in detail of research.

A child prodigy he was already a concert pianist by the age of six. As a young man he was an accompanist for singers with the Amsterdam Royal Opera Company, of which he became the conductor in 1899. For a short time he was an accompanist in the singing studio of Mathilde Marchesi in Paris. He travelled to the United States in 1906 to accompany the French cabar

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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