Richard Hageman

Richard Hageman (1882-1966) is known for a variety of musical activities. He was a composer, pianist, conductor, and actor. A child prodigy pianist, born to American parents in Holland, he began his music studies in Europe. As a young man he was an accompanist for singers and a conductor, first with the Amsterdam Royal Opera Company. He moved to the United States in 1906, and was a conductor for the Metropolitan Opera between 1914 and 1932.

He is known to the film community for his work as an actor and film score composer, most notably for his work on several John Ford films in the late 1930s. He shared an Academy Award for his score to Ford’s 1939 western Stagecoach.

He also composed more serious vocal music. While his operas are rarely heard, a few of his art songs are well-known and highly regarded, especially “Do not Go, My Love”, a setting of a Rabindranath Tagore poem.

Selected Worklist

• Stage:
  • Caponsacchi (Op. 3, R. Browning), 1931
  • I Hear America Call (oratorio, R.V. Grossman), Bar, SATB, orch, 1942
  • The Crucible (oratorio, B.C. Kennedy), 1943

• Film scores (all dir. John Ford):
  • Stagecoach, 1939
  • The Long Voyage Home, 1940
  • Fort Apache, 1948
  • Three Godfathers, 1948
  • She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, 1949
  • Wagon Master, 1950

• Orchestra:
  • Overture ‘In a Nutshell’; Suite, str

• Chamber:
  • October Musings, vn, pf, 1937
  • Recit and Romance, vc, pf, 1961
• Songs, 1v, pf:
  • Do not go, my love (Rabindranath Tagore), 1917
  • May Night (Tagore), 1917
  • At the Well (Tagore), 1919
  • Happiness (Jean Ingelow), 1920
  • Charity (Emily Dickinson), 1921
  • Nature’s Holiday (T. Nash), 1921
  • Animal Crackers (C. Morley), 1922
  • Christ went up into the Hills (K. Adams), 1924
  • Me Company Along (J. Stephens), 1925
  • The Night has a Thousand Eyes (F.W. Bourdillon), 1935
  • Christmas Eve (Joyce Kilmer), 1936
  • Music I Heard with You (Conrad Aiken), 1938
  • Miranda (Hillaire Belloc), 1940
  • Lift thou the Burdens, Father (K.C. Simonds), 1944
  • The Fiddler of Dooney (William Butler Yeats), 1946

• over 50 other songs, many arranged for chorus

External Links

• Richard Hageman at the Internet Movie Database

References

Miller, Philip Lieson and Michael Mechina. "Hageman, Richard", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed 20 June 2007), grovemusic.com (subscription access).

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