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Eben Tourjée was born on June 1, 1834. He was the son of Ebenezer and Angelina (Ball) Tourjée, of Warwick, R. I. The Tourjée family was of Huguenot descent, long settled in Rhode Island. On his mother's side Tourjée was of the Balls of Block Island.
At the age of eight he was employed in a local calico mill. Later, having obtained work at the Harrisville, R. I, cotton factory owned by Gov. Elisha Harris, he attracted the attention of his employer by exceptionally beautiful singing in a church choir, and in his fourteenth year he so effectively played the organ at the wedding of one of the governor's daughters that he was given opportunity for regular instruction in music at Providence and in academic subjects at the East Greenwich Seminary.
In 1851, holding a clerkship in a Providence music store, he edited and published the Key-Note, which later became the Massachusetts Music Journal. In 1853 he visited Boston, seeking support for a conservatory of music, but received no encouragement.
Thereupon, with almost no capital, he opened at Fall River, Massachussets, a school which exemplified for the first time in New England the conservatory system of teaching. It quickly enrolled upwards of five hundred pupils, but as it failed to pay its way Tourjée presently removed to Newport, R. I, where he combined private teaching and organ playing.
In 1861 he was chosen music director at the East Greenwich Seminary. At the time of the Civil War he gave enthusiastic service as musical organizer of enlistment rallies. Midway during the war he studied music for a short time in Germany. By 1864 the musical department at East Greenwich had outgrown the seminary, and Tourjée reorganized it as the Musical Institute of Providence (later the Providence Conservatory of Music).
In 1867 he transferred his activities to Boston, where in association with Robert Goldbeck he opened the New England Conservatory of Music almost simultaneously with the Boston Conservatory of Music, directed by Julius Eichberg. Tourjée's ability as an organizer became nationally known when he served as first assistant to Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore in the management of two great peace jubilees in Boston, 1869 and 1872. His conservatory, meantime, had a rapid growth. Its first class was graduated in 1870.
In 1882 Tourjée transferred the school from rented quarters in the Music Hall to the former St. James Hotel, Franklin Square, which he bought, incurring a debt of about $250, 000. An indefatigable worker, who inspired the best efforts of other musicians, Tourjée struggled in his last years under intolerable financial burdens. The school was large, its gross income was increased by supplementary activities, such as the summer excursions to Europe which he and Mrs. Tourjée successfully conducted, and yet the deficits persisted. When he sought state aid, such as had been granted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he met with rebuffs, even though the Conservatory had been incorporated as a non-profit-making institution.
Shortly before his death, which occurred in Boston, a directory committee was appointed subject to the final authority of a board of trustees, a plan of management that was continued at the New England Conservatory in later directorships.
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A frail man, never robust, he became an invalid and directed the school from a wheel chair.
He married, in October 1855, Abbie I. Tuell. She died in October 1867. His second marriage, in 1871, was to Sarah Lee of Auburndale, Massachussets, who with two sons and two daughters survived him.
