Jeannette Meyer Thurber

Alternate title: Jeannette Meyer

Jeannette Meyer Thurber, née Jeannette Meyer   (born Jan. 29, 1850New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 2, 1946, Bronxville, N.Y.), American music patron who devoted her efforts to creating a government-funded music conservatory in the United States.

Jeannette Meyer was privately educated in New York and Paris. In 1869 she married Francis B. Thurber, a wholesale grocer and later a lawyer. Influenced by her observations of the French system of government-sponsored music education, Thurber soon began working toward such a system for the United States. She began by providing funds for music study abroad for American students.

In 1883 Thurber supported the free ... (100 of 287 words)

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