Musicians And Composers On Stamps

philb,

I lived down the road from an Indian reservation in New Mexico.
There are two kinds of people in this world.

The Quick and the Hungry!



and I think it is Verdi...

Ok, thanks for showing Vivaldi..i did not know this stamp...if my wife buys some ink for the printer I can scan Signor Verdi !!

Phil I'm by no means an expert when it comes to printers or scanners
or anything else for that matter but IMO the scanner should work with or without ink.

Here is another famous Italian musician for you Phil.
Sorry not a composer but the great conductor Arturo Toscanini


Scott 948

Litho, its a surprise to me..when I hit image scan as I normally do I get a message..printer has run out of ink..i don't know why it should care about scans !

Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (1842-1912) was a French composer best known for his operas, which were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Massenet, designed by French illustrator Paul-Pierre Lemagny (1905-1977), engraved by Antonin Delzers (1873-1943), and issued by France on June 22, 1942 for Massenet's birth centenary, Scott No. 452, Y&T No. 545.

- nethryk

Charles-François Gounod (17 June 1818 – 17 October 1893) was a French composer best known for his Ave Maria
as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette.
Interestingly his piano piece "Funeral March of a Marionette" was
used for the theme music of the 1950s Tv show Alfred Hitchcock Presents.


Scott B174




Scott B131


Emmanuel Chabrier(January 18, 1841 – September 13, 1894) was also a French Romantic composer and pianist.




Both stamps were issued during the Vichy regime.
Notice that they are inscribed FRANCE and Postes FRANCAISES instead of RF (REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE)
which was the practice before and after the fall of Petain's government.

Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901) was a German organist and composer, born in Liechtenstein. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Rheinberger and organ pipes, designed by Austrian artist Wilhelm Dachauer (1881-1951), engraved by Ferdinand Lorber, printed by the Government Printing Works, Vienna, and issued by Liechtenstein on March 31, 1939, Scott No. 153, SG No. 175.

- nethryk

2009 issue of classical composers (Ireland)

A few earlier issues.

My latest Additions to my Malta Collection...thanks to Timbres

Guido D' Arrezzo... 991- 1033 A.D

Stevie Wonder

Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoi (1907-1979) was a Russian composer of classical music. Originally named Solovyov, when he entered the Russian "Composer's Union" he added the suffix "Sedoi", meaning grey, to avoid confusion with another composer with the same name. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Solovyov-Sedoi, designed by Pjotr Bendel, engraved by Lidiya Fedorovna Majorova, and issued by Russia (USSR) on April 25, 1982, Scott No. 5036, Zagorski No. 5217.

- nethryk

Gustav Mahler

Franz Benda (Czech: František Benda) (1709-1786) was a Czech violinist and composer who worked for much of his life at the court of Frederick the Great of Prussia. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Benda, designed by Czech artist Karel Svolinsky (1896-1986), engraved by Jindra Schmidt, and issued by Czechoslovakia on June 22, 1959, Scott No. 921, SG No. 1097.

- nethryk