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Richard Hageman: The Becoming of a Song Composer

Richard Hageman: The Becoming of a Song Composer

de Villiers, Nico

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralMusic Reference

ISBN10: 1433188937
ISBN13: 9781433188930
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Oct 29 2025
Pages: 238
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

As an important contributor to the arts in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, Richard Hageman (1881-1966) is recognized as one of the Academy Award-winning film composers for John Ford's Stagecoach (1939). While routinely referred to in the same context as Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, William Grant Still, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold in Hollywood, Hageman was also a celebrated pianist, coach, conductor, and composer of concert music. During his lifetime the gamut of singers of the day sang his songs, from opera stars Geraldine Farrar, Kirsten Flagstad, Lauritz Melchior, Lawrence Tibbett and recital stalwarts Lotte Lehmann, Nan Merriman, John McCormack to silver screen songbirds Jeanette MacDonald and Deanna Durbin. Later Kiri Te Kanawa, Thomas Hampson, and Roberta Alexander recorded some Hageman songs, but nowadays these songs remain generally unexplored. This volume considers these songs in depth from the unique perspective of an art song scholar-pianist.

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