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Soviet writer of plays and libretti (1905–1942)

Alexander Germanovich Preis (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ге́рманович Прейс; 1905–1942) was a Soviet writer of numerous plays and libretti, including those for Shostakovich's operas The Nose and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

References

  1. McMillin, Arnold (2003). "Gogol′'s 'St Petersburg Stories' in the Hands of Russian Composers". New Zealand Slavonic Journal: 174.
  2. Wells, Elizabeth A. (2001). "'The New Woman': Lady Macbeth and Sexual Politics in the Stalinist Era". Cambridge Opera Journal. 13 (2): 179.

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