Charles Hague

Charles Hague (4 May 1769 – 18 June 1821) was an English violinist and composer, who became professor of music at Cambridge University.

In 1779 he moved with his brother to Cambridge, where he studied the violin under Antony Manini, and thorough-bass and composition under Hellendaal the Elder.

He acquired a reputation as a violin player, which led to a friendship with Joseph Jowett, then regius professor of civil law.

Manini died in 1785, and Hague moved to London and studied under Johann Peter Salomon and Benjamin Cooke.

His eldest daughter, Harriet Hague, an accomplished pianist, who published in 1814 Six Songs, with an Accompaniment for the Pianoforte, died in 1816, aged 23.