Herbert Kretzmer

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Biography

English journalist and lyricist

  • Primary profession
  • Soundtrack·writer·music_department
  • Country
  • United Kingdom
  • Nationality
  • British
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 05 October 1925
  • Place of birth
  • Kroonstad
  • Death age
  • 95
  • Education
  • Rhodes University
  • Knows language
  • English language

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Awards

Trivia

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 130, pp. 238-240. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.

Won Broadways 1987 Tony Award, his lyrics with Alain Boublil and the music of Claude-Michel Schnberg as Best Score for "Les Misrables."

He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2011 Queens New Years Honours List for his services to music. He was the lyricist for the musical adaptation of Victor Hugos novel, "Les Miserables.".

(December 2010) Kensington, London, England

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