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SEVITZKY and the Indianapolis Symphony, Volume 1 (1941-46) - PASC479
Fabien Sevitzky conducts the Indianapolis Symphony
"An excellent conductor, eminently deserving of renewed attention" - Fanfare
Fabien Sevitzky was born in Vishny Volochyok, Russia on 29
September 1891 (not 1893, as other sources list). A nephew of Serge
Koussevitzky’s, his original last name was the same, but later shortened
at his uncle’s request to avoid confusion. Like him, Sevitzky took up
the double bass in order to win a conservatory scholarship. After
playing in orchestras in Russia and Poland, Sevitzky joined Stokowski’s
Philadelphia Orchestra in 1923. Two years lat