Fabien Sevitzky (September 29, 1891 in Vyshny Volochyok – February 3, 1967 in Athens) was a Russian-born American conductor.
He was the nephew of renowned double-bass virtuoso and longtime Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Serge Koussevitzky.
[1] Sevitzky became music director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in 1937 after he first conducted it in winter 1936,[2] and remained in the position until 1955.
He championed the music of William Grant Still, from whom he commissioned works including Threnody: In Memory of Jan Sibelius,[7] and conducted the premiere of Still's opera Highway 1, U.S.A. in 1960.
[8] He was music director of the Greater Miami Philharmonic Orchestra from 1956 to 1962,[9] and died suddenly in 1967.