Juilliard, Augustus D.

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Juilliard, Augustus D.

Juilliard, Augustus D., American music patron; b. at sea during his parents’ voyage from Burgundy to the U.S., April 19, 1836; d. N.Y., April 25, 1919. He was a prominent industrialist, and left the residue of his estate for the creation of the Juilliard Musical Foundation (1920). The Juilliard Graduate School was founded in 1924 and the Juilliard School of Music was organized in 1926. The latter’s board then took control of the Juilliard Graduate School and the Inst. of Musical Art, which had been founded by Frank Damrosch and James Loeb in 1905. The two schools were merged as the Juilliard School of Music in 1946. After the expansion of its activities to include dance and drama, it was renamed the Juilliard School in 1968.

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