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TOURGEE, Eben, musician, born in Warwick, Rhode Island, 1 June, 1834. At seventeen years of age he was clerk in a Providence music-store, and at nineteen a music-dealer at Fall River. He also taught in the public schools, and edited the " Massachusetts Musical Journal." In 1859 he founded a musical conservatory at East Greenwich, and in 1864 he projected a larger institution at Providence, which was removed to Boston in 1867, and incorporated in 1870. The building that is occupied by the conservatory has a concert-hall, containing a large pipe-organ and stage and seats for 1,500 persons. Besides a library, reading-room, and offices, it has rooms for 500 students, and cost, with all its appointments, more than $700,000.
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