Usually I save the music for last but this morning.....

There was a rather saddish Russian composer, Liadov, who, as one of his contemporaries said “Laziness was Anatoly Konstantinovich’s most remarkable feature”.

Simply he was gifted and didn't do much with it. 

One thing he was gifted at, when he actually did it, was writing little "bon bons" - little pieces of candy if you will -

There is a clock in the lobby of the Hotel Mezhdunarodnaya in Moscow - their pre-1989 western hotel - that plays the fanfare from "The Golden Cockeral" and then "the Musical Snuff Box" of Liadov. I'm talking big clock here.

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