Richard Hageman

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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 Amsterdam and gave lessons as a piano teacher. As a young man he was an accompanist for singers and with the Amsterdam Royal Opera Company, of which he became the conductor in 1899. For a short time he was accompanist to Mathilde Marchesi in Paris.[1] He travelled to the United States in 1906 to accompany Yvette Guilbert on a national tour. He stayed and eventually became an American citizen. He was a conductor and pianist for the Metropolitan Opera between 1914 and 1932, 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.[2] 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 had minor roles in eleven mo

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Music From the Westerns of John Wayne and John Ford

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (From 'She Wore a Yellow Ribbon' Original Soundtrack)

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Original Western Film Themes & Songs

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Greatest Original Western Movie Themes

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Voices, Songs by Richard Hageman

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Simply Great Movie Tracks (Original Motion Picture Soundtracks)

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Do Not Go

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Songs my mother taught me

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100 Greatest Western Themes

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Cinema Century: A Musical Celebration of 100 Years of Cinema

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Les westerns de John Ford (Bandes originales des films)

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The Fugitive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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