In 1916 he opened his own manufacturing concern with two other partners to produce brass band instruments. patent 1,073,593) on Septemfor a more conical bore cornet. 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 Septemin Poughkeepsie, New York to a family with three other children.
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