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A completely reducible module is multiplicity-free if all its irreducible submodules are pairwise nonisomorphic. In [Ann. Comb. 5, No. 2, 113--121 (2001; Zbl 0990.05130)], the author classified the cases when the tensor product of two irreducible representations of the Lie algebra \(sl(n)\) is multiplicity-free. The description was given in terms of Schur functions, both for finite and infinite number of variables. In the paper under review he completes a similar classification for tensor products of irreducible representations of any complex semisimple Lie algebra. The obtained results are applied for the description of all irreducible representations with multiplicity-free restrictions on reductive subalgebras of parabolic type. The main idea of the proof is to use the Weyl character formula and to attack the problem with a wide variety of exclusively combinatorial and computational tools. As the author has mentioned, the recent paper [\textit{R. C. King} and \textit{B. G. Wybourne}, J. Phys. A, Math. Gen. 35, No. 15, 3489--3513 (2002; Zbl 1003.22004)] contains the same classification in the exceptional cases.