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“A ray of the sun of golden darkness was hidden by a veil“ – perhaps every inhabitant of the post-Soviet space will recognize the famous “Serenade of the Troubadour“ from the favorite children’s cartoon from the first lines and mentally sing in Magomayev’s voice. Let’s find out how composer Gennady Gladkov created a work that has not aged for almost half a century, how it got into the repertoire of Egor Letov and DDT, and why the Troubadour in the second part of the animated story about the Bremen Town musicians “matured“ and sang in a completely different voice. The song was first performed on the Holiday of Spring and Labor – on May 1, 1973, the premiere of the cartoon “In the Footsteps of the Bremen Town Musicians“ took place. The tape was a logical continuation of the first part, which was released back in 1969. Vasily Livanov became the director of the cartoon, replacing Inessa Kovalevskaya, who was busy with other projects at that time, in the d
