Jeannette Thurber
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Jeanette Thurber (January 29, 1850 - January 2, 1946) is considered by some to have been the first major patron of classical music in America. Educated in Paris, Thurber was married to a millionaire grocery wholesaler. In the 1880s she founded the American Opera Company and the National Conservatory of Music, both in New York. In 1892, she was responsible for bringing the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák to the United States to head the latter institution. It was her ambition to found a uniquely American school of Classical composition.
Thurber died in Bronxville, New York, in 1946.
[edit] External links
- "On the Money: New Music Funding in the United States", an excerpt concerning Jeanette M. Thurber
