City of Lovers

Vadim Gamalia.
Born 13 October 1935, Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russian Federation
Died 13 October 1995, Moscow, Moscow, Russian Federation
13 was certainly unlucky for Gamalia as he died in tragic circumstances (see below).
He probably had a Russian City in mind for his City of Lovers but I have made it more friendly and accessable by giving it a French Parisien feel I hope with the Königslutter Clarinette standing in for the accordian.

Vadim Alekseevich Gamalia is a popular composer,who worked in Soviet Russia and wrote pop music, as well as accompaniment to movies and cartoons. He was a member of the Union of Composers of the USSR and the Russian Federation, and also had and has a large number of admirers and connoisseurs who adore his songs.
After graduating from the Rostov School of Arts, Gamaliya entered the Moscow Conservatory. In total, he wrote about 70 tunes, songs for which popular pop singers
The most vivid superhit of Vadim Gamaliy is "Strict corporal", written in the 1970s.
The Soviet composer collaborated with the group"Earthlings." Gamaliya wrote musical accompaniment to the animated films "The Builder Fox", "Zhu Zhu Zhu", "Tails", "Eureka", "Varezhka", "Opponents", "The Secret of the Iron Door", as well as the films "Monday - Day heavy "and" Abduction ". The famous film "The Mitten" directed by Roman Kachanov and the music of Vadim Gamalii were recognized by several national and international film festivals of France and Spain as "the best children's film" and a work with "high quality of animation".

Vadim Gamaliya was killed and robbed in Moscow on Gorky Street on the day of his sixtieth birthday on October 13, 1995. As the friend of the composer Yuri Chugunov tells in his book "Music and Everything Else" published in 2005, in recent years Gamaliya suffered from serious problems with alcohol: "alcohol grabbed him with a death grip, and so he did not let out until the tragic end ".