Background
Shteinpress, Boris was born on August 13, 1908 in Berdiansk.
Shteinpress, Boris was born on August 13, 1908 in Berdiansk.
Taught at the Moscow and Sverdlovsk conservatories until 1943. Senior music editor of the Bolshaia Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia, 1938-1940 and 1943-1959. Author of many books including К Istorii Tsyganskogo Peniia v Rossii, Moscow, 1934.