Les Misérables lyricist felt lack of credit, archive reveals
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Getty Images Herbert Kretzmer died in 2020 and his archive has been donated to Cambridge University
The late Herbert Kretzmer, who wrote the English libretto for Les Misérables, felt he was not given enough credit for transforming the original French musical into the hugely popular English-language version, letters have revealed.
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