wonderful how it begins by painting apicture of the arizona landscape and a lone stagecoach in the frontier, and then the french horns and drums signaling the approach of savage Apaches, the bugle and horse hooves then symbolizing the Cavalry rescue party. you can just imagine that action sequence just by listening to this vivid, exciting music by hageman.
Thank you so much for correcting my (and Phase 4's) error as to the name of the composer. I had no idea Richard Hageman was the primary composer of the score. I duly changed the title tag to his name, but I can't change or remove Max Steiner's
Phase 4 erroneously credited Max Steiner on their album. Steiner wrote several scores in 1939, but STAGECOACH wasn't one of them. The score was written by Richard Hageman primarily, with additional cues by John Leipold, Louis Gruenberg and W. Franke Harling. Boris Morros was the musical director on the picture.
@rpfaiola I have a copy of the original music cue sheet for this score which shows it was mostly the work of John Leipold (who handled the action scenes, including the climactic attack on the stage) and Leo Shuken (who mostly handled the Wayne/Trevor romantic scenes) Richard Hageman supplied only one cue (when the stage first sets off) while Gruenberg's contribution was not used - he was rightly omitted from the Oscar nomination. Harling and an uncredited Gerard Carbonara wrote additional cues,
wonderful how it begins by painting apicture of the arizona landscape and a lone stagecoach in the frontier, and then the french horns and drums signaling the approach of savage Apaches, the bugle and horse hooves then symbolizing the Cavalry rescue party. you can just imagine that action sequence just by listening to this vivid, exciting music by hageman.
classical38 2 months ago
Thanks Skipjacktuner. I appreciate the clarification. Leipold did a ton of work at Columbia and his scores and cues deserve identification.
rpfaiola 5 months ago
Thank you so much for correcting my (and Phase 4's) error as to the name of the composer. I had no idea Richard Hageman was the primary composer of the score. I duly changed the title tag to his name, but I can't change or remove Max Steiner's
name from the clip itself.
amuggle15 6 months ago
Phase 4 erroneously credited Max Steiner on their album. Steiner wrote several scores in 1939, but STAGECOACH wasn't one of them. The score was written by Richard Hageman primarily, with additional cues by John Leipold, Louis Gruenberg and W. Franke Harling. Boris Morros was the musical director on the picture.
rpfaiola 7 months ago
@rpfaiola I have a copy of the original music cue sheet for this score which shows it was mostly the work of John Leipold (who handled the action scenes, including the climactic attack on the stage) and Leo Shuken (who mostly handled the Wayne/Trevor romantic scenes) Richard Hageman supplied only one cue (when the stage first sets off) while Gruenberg's contribution was not used - he was rightly omitted from the Oscar nomination. Harling and an uncredited Gerard Carbonara wrote additional cues,
skipjacktuner 5 months ago
I love John Wayne
suengtueng 8 months ago