Richard Hageman: Richard Hageman. Music Department: Stagecoach. Composer, songwriter, conductor and pianist, educated at the Brussels Conservatory (Mus. D.) and the Royal Conservatory of Amsterdam, on scholarships. He was a concert pianist at six and accompanist for the Royal Opera Company in Amsterdam, assuming the conductorship in 1899. Coming to the USA with Yvette Guilbert, he became a US citizen in 1906 and assistant conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in 1908, and...
Known For: Stagecoach (Music Department(based on American folk songs)), This Woman Is Mine (Composer), The Shanghai Gesture (Music Department), If I Were King (Composer)