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The miller who was a wizard, a cheat and a matchmaker
The miller who was a wizard, a cheat and a matchmaker (title in Russian "Мельник – колдун, обманщик и сват [Melnik – koldun, obmanshchik i svat]") – is a Russian ballad opera in three acts with a libretto by Alexander Ablesimov that premiered on . Its folksong-based music was long attributed to Yevstigney Fomin but is now considered to have been by Mikhail Sokolovsky, and others have contributed music to revivals.
Background.
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- Sokolovsky: The Miller-Wizard, Cheat and Matchmaker (1925)
Sources.
- "Tcherepnin, Nikolay" by Christopher Palmer, in 'The New Grove Dictionary of Opera', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992)
- Savenko, Svetlana, et al. "Tcherepnin: (1) Nikolay Tcherepnin". 2002. New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 7 June 2008. 
External links.
- Biography at the Tcherepnin Society website
- Memoirs by Nikolai Tcherepnin