Richard Hageman
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Richard Hageman |
| Born |
July 9, 1881 Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands |
| Died | March 6, 1966 (aged 84) Beverly Hills, California, United States |
| Genres | 20th-century classical music Film scores |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, Songwriter, Conductor, Pianist, Actor |
| Instruments | Piano |
| Years active | 1899–1954 |
| Associated acts |
John Ford, Frank Lloyd, Merian C. Cooper |
Richard Hageman (9 July 1881 – 6 March 1966) was a Dutch-born American conductor, pianist, composer, and actor.
Hageman was born and raised in Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands. He was the son of Maurits Hageman of Zutphen and Hester Westerhoven of Amsterdam. A child prodigy, he was a concert pianist by the age of six. He studied in Belgium and Amsterdam. As a young man he was an accompanist for singers and with the Nederlandsche Opera, of which he conducted for the first time in 1899. He became the artistic director briefly in 1903. For a short time he was accompanist to Mathilde Marchesi in Paris. He travelled to the United States in 1906 to accompany Yvette Guilbert on a national tour. He stayed and eventually became an American citizen in 1925.
He was a conductor and pianist for the Metropolitan Opera 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. He was a guest director of orchestras like the Chicago, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles symphony orchestras. He conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra summer concerts for four years, and from 1938-1943 he conducted at the Hollywood Bowl summer concerts.
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