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Francis Florentine Hagen

Short Name: Francis Florentine Hagen
Full Name: Hagen, Francis Florentine, 1815-1907
Birth Year: 1815
Death Year: 1907

Rv Francis Florentine Hagen USA 1815-1907. Born in Winston-Salem, NC, he was a Moravian minister and composer, arranger, translator, adapter, transcriber, author, and librettist. He attended the Moravian Theological Seminary in Bethlehem, PA, and later taught there. He was ordained a deacon in the Moravian Church in 1844. He married Clara Cornelia Reichel, and they had two sons, John and Ernest. He served various congregations in NC, PA, and NY, before retiring from ministry in 1877. As a musician and composer he created large-scale orchestral and vocal works, as well as piano and organ pieces (waltzes, polkas, marches, galops, and chamber music). He also edited the Maravian Magazine from 1856-58. He also wrote a history of the Moravian Church. He died in Lititz, PA.

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