Jeannette Thurber

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Jeanette Thurber (January 29, 1850 - January 2, 1946)was amongst the first major patrons of classical music in the United States.

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 music composition.

Thurber died in Bronxville, New York, in 1946.

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• "On the Money: New Music Funding in the United States", an excerpt concerning Jeanette M. Thurber