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César Franck (1822-1890), teacher, organist and composer



Queen Elizabeth contest

Super Daniel!
What was the queen elizabeth contest, please?

Indeed! I love those! Tell us more.

The Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, a founding member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions (1957) has been, since its foundation, considered the world over to be one of the most prestigious and most difficult in existence. It is devoted to violin (since 1951), piano (since 1952), to composition (since 1953) and to singing (since 1988). Held in Brussels, the Competition is named after Queen Elisabeth of Belgium. (Wikipédia)

Elisabeth of Bavaria (1876–1965), spouse of Albert I of Belgium.



In her later years, she became a patron of the arts and was known for her friendship with notable scientists like Albert Einstein. During the German occupation of Belgium from 1940 to 1944, she used her German connections and influence to assist in the rescue of hundreds of Jewish children from deportation by the Nazis. When Brussels was liberated, she allowed her palace to be used for HQ of the British XXX Corps, and presented its commander General Horrocks with its mascot, a young wild boar named 'Chewing Gum'.[1] After the war she was awarded the title Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli government. During the 1950s, the Queen aggravated the Americans by visiting the Soviet Union, China and Poland, trips that led her to being known as the "Red Queen." (wikipédia)

Another Bruckner cover.
Getting sick of Austria yet?

My final Bruckner!
Note that this one has both German and Austrian stamps and is canceled in both places.
Now how did they do that?

A possible side question to consider.

When did music first appear on the stamp scene?

My candidate for first stamp is France (Scott 309,310)in 1936.
Centenary of the death of Rouget de Lisle, composer of La Marseillaise.
Don't have the stamp, so can't show it.
Any earlier ones out there?

A quibble
A bit of text with each reply is very helpful to those of us using dial up connections. I have yet to see some of the scans, as my connection times out when big scans arrive. With some text, I will know if it is worth the effort of repeatedly reloading to get a good view.
Thanks a bunch,
Butterfly

There must be examples before 1936.

If you'll grant a little latitude in the definition of "music" I'll be shocked if we can't push it back into the 19th century.

[edit: Norway depicted a horn starting in 1872, but it is a posthorn, so it might be more of a tool than an instrument. I'm pretty sure Haiti's 1904 issue includes instruments below the vignette. I'll check tonight.]

Butterfly,

I am on dial up also and I find the larger images time out usually also.

I have found however that if I right click on the half loaded image and chose 'save image as' and download it to my computer then I can view it in it's entirety. It is still slow to download, but it doesn't time out.

Thanks for that spotlight on Queen Elisabeth Timbes667.

What an extraordinarily beautiful woman!

Rod
I first read about her when I made the page and mount the stamps. I was curious about this Queen Elizabeth music contest in Belgium. I searched for infos on every of my stamp mounted in my Europa albums and I had a text/description below every stamps. That's the way philately had allot to my culture.

...plus she was an actor...

That's a good question butterfly and I'm not certain which country's
stamp portrayed the first musical instrument.
As far as composers is concerned though the Austrian composer's
set of 1922 surely must be a very early example.
Sorry to say I don't have the set which showed Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, Strauss and Hugo Wolf.
I do have a souvenir card which was a privately commissioned
reprint produced by the Austrian State Printers which portrays
3 of the stamps only in different colours from the originals.

Which one is Elisabeth ? Tony or Jack ?