His new address of 327 East 17th Street in New York City seemed a poor substitute for the rolling hills of Bohemia. Moreover, according to his colleagues, he had a flair for teaching.ĭvořák accepted Thurber’s offer and moved to the United States in 1892, but he was uncomfortable in the urban American setting, and he disliked being absent from his homeland. As a skilled composer of international renown-a conservative late Romantic who specialized in lush symphonic works and chamber music rather like that of his mentor Johannes Brahms-Dvořák had much to share with aspiring musicians. ![]() Thurber ultimately offered the job to Dvořák, who at that time was a music professor at the Prague Conservatory in Austria-Hungary (now in the Czech Republic). Although many Americans would have leapt at the opportunity, there were no suitably qualified candidates, largely because classical music was still in its adolescence in the United States. Determined to fill the position with a person of global reputation whose own prestige would boost that of the conservatory, she offered the attractive annual salary of $15,000. In 1891 the noted American patron of the arts Jeannette Meyer Thurber embarked on a mission to find a director for the National Conservatory of Music, the school that she had founded in New York City. ![]()
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