Music on stamps
- Title
- Music on stamps
- Type
- Text
- Language
- English
- Abstract
- During the past forty years a number of countries have issued postage stamps to commemorate famous composers, musicians, conductors, music festivals, and even national anthems. One of the earliest European issues was in 1922 when a set of Austrian Charity stamps were on sale for a short period in aid of a Musicians Fund. There were seven different values bearing portraits of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, Strauss and Wolf. Some countries have issued stamps depicting musical instruments and some interesting examples have appeared showing musicians playing traditional instruments of their particular country. In 1931 the Belgian Congo issued a set of three stamps showing native flute players (40c. green) native musicians—to quote the Stamp Catalogue, (50c. violet) and native drummers (60c. purple).
- Description
- pages: 63
- Created Date
- November 30, 1960
- Parent project
- International Library of African Music
- is funded by
-
Rhodes University
- Place of Origin
- South Africa
- Author
- Mickleburgh, Roy
- License
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
- Access Rights
- Public
- DRE ID
- eaa-99-00ac
- Identifier
-
613
Value Annotations
- Type
- Publisher, distributor, or vendor stock number
- WissKI URL
- 75914
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