Jeanette Thurber is considered by some to have been the first major patron of Classical music in America. In the 1880s she founded the American Opera Company and the National Conservatory of Music , both in New York. 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.

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• Short biography of Thurber