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African Traditional Musical Instruments - Royal Drummers and Dancers of Burundi, issued by Burundi on October 15, 2012:

African Traditional Musical Instruments, issued by Liberia on October 16, 1967:

African Traditional Musical Instruments, issued for use in Belgian Congo in 1931:

200th anniversary birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), designed by Karel Svolinsky, engraved by Jindra Schmidt and issued on May 12, 1956:

30h.: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period.

45h.: Josef Myslivecek (1737 – 1781) was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music. Myslivecek provided his younger friend Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with significant compositional models in the genres of symphony, Italian serious opera, and violin concerto.

60h.: Jirí Antonín Benda (1722-1795) was a composer, violinist and Kapellmeister of the classical period from the Kingdom of Bohemia.

1Kcs: Bertramka is a villa in Prague notable because of possible visits by Mozart. Now it is a museum dedicated to the memory of Mozart and to the former owners and Mozart's hosts: Frantisek and Josefina Dusek

1.4Kcs.: Frantisek and Josefina Dusek:
Josefína Duskova (1754 - 1824) was a Czech soprano opera singer of the classical period. She was a friend of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who composed several singing pieces for her.
Frantisek Xaver Dusek (1731 – 1799) was a Czech composer and one of the most important harpsichordists and pianists of his time.

1.60Kcs: The Estates Theatre or Stavovske divadlo is a historic theater in Prague, Czech Republic. One of the Estates Theatre's many claims to glory is its strong link with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who conducted the world premiere of his opera Don Giovanni here in October 1787. Also, in 1791, Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito was staged in public here for the first time in celebration of the coronation of Emperor Leopold II.

This was today in my post office box:

Thai Traditional Musical Instruments, issued by Thailand on August 3, 2015:

Traditional musical instruments, designed by Dusan Lucic, engraved by Dusan Matic and Nusret Hrvanovic as indicated on the stamps, and issued by Yugoslavia on October 25, 1977:

The 200th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827), German Composer and Pianist, engraved by Pierre Gandon and issued by Monaco on December 15, 1970:

Czech composers, designed by Karel Svolinsky, engraved by Jindra Schmidt and issued by Czechoslovakia on May 22, 1954:

Antonin Leopold Dvorak (1841 – 1904), a Czech composer. Dvorak frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic-era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedrich Smetana:

Leos Janacek (1854 – 1928), a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist, and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic music, including Eastern European folk music, to create an original, modern musical style:

Bedrich Smetana (1824 – 1884), a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival." He has been regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music. Internationally he is best known for his 1866 opera The Bartered Bride and for the symphonic cycle Ma vlast ("My Fatherland"):

Traditional Drums, issued by the Kingdom of Laos on March 30, 1970. Stamps were designed by Ky Phungchaleun and engraved by different engravers:

Kong Phene, Midday Drum, engraved by Jean Miermont:

Kong Thong, Bronze Drum, engraved by Roger Fenneteaux:

Pong, Wood Drum, engraved by Claude Jumelet:



Luang Prabang, Laos, French Indochina, 1929:

The 200th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), German Composer and Pianist, designed by Karel Svolinsky, engraved by Ladislav Jirka and issued by Czechoslovakia on February 17, 1970:

The 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven, issued by Israel on December 15, 2020:

Lao traditional musical instruments, issued by Laos on March 27, 1984:

Khong Wong - Bells
Row Nat - Xylophone
Drums
Kong Thab - Drum
Kong Phene - Drum
So - Violin






Banknote of 5000Kip issued on 1974 by the Kingdom of Laos shows Lao traditional musical orchestra:

I found the original photo used as a model to design the banknote. It was taken by Maurice Bouton in 1952 in Wat Mixay, Vientiane, Laos:

Traditional musical instruments of different islands of Indonesia, issued by Indonesia on February 1, 1967. Each stamp shows musical instrument on the background of the island map. The set contains 16 stamps, I have 11 of them:

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827), a German composer, on different paintings, issued by Rwanda on July 5, 1971:

Beethoven by Christian Horneman
Beethoven by Joseph Stieler

Beethoven by Ferdinand Schimon
Beethoven by H. Best

Beethoven by W Fassbander
Beethoven's Funeral Procession by Leopold Xaver Stober