In 1892, he became director of his first band and, in 1907, took a job at Frank Holton Company as a promoter of their instruments.
He began playing professionally in various bands in the 1880s and in 1890 began composing for band. He entered the New England Conservatory of Music in 1885, but withdrew and took a job repairing watches in his uncle's shop. At the age of fourteen, he began playing the cornet. Couturier was born September 30, 1869, in Poughkeepsie, New York to a family with three other children. He promoted the Holton Band Instrument Company for a decade in that capacity before applying his own unique inventions to the production of his own line of brass band instruments between 19.Į.A. Ernst Albert Couturier (Septemin Poughkeepsie – Februin Wingdale) was best known as a cornet player who toured as a "virtuoso" performer on the concert programs of bands of the day.
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