Philip Hagemann (born 21 December 1932) is an American composer and conductor.
(1988), which includes The Dark Lady of the Sonnets and Passion, Poison and Petrifaction.
Other operas include works based on Henry James's The Aspern Papers, (which premiered at Northwestern University on the same night, 19 November 1988, that Dominic Argento's opera on the same story premiered in Dallas), Edith Wharton's Roman Fever (1989), and Oscar Wilde's The Nightingale and the Rose (2003).
[6] His Christmas choral piece Fruitcake which includes both spoken and sung passages, is a humorous version of the cake recipe, and has sold over 150,000 copies of sheet music.
He added that "he injects grittiness into his music through the piling up of clusters and dissonance.