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| 1998: 450th Anniversary of Saxony State Orchestra |
The music is about to begin
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| 1972: Anniversaries - Ralph Vaughan Williams (Design - A Abbott) |
and quite special if you get both the composer and conductor
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| 1996: 50th Death Anniversary of Paul Lincke |
Paul Lincke, conductor and composer of light operetta who taught himself to play the violin, he also continued that with learning the bassoon and piano.
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| 1961: 150th Anniversary and 75th Death Anniversary Franz Liszt |
Franz Liszt, virtuoso pianist and composer, the rock star of his day, who provided some technically difficult piano compositions for those who came after him
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| 1985: European Year of Music |
Something a bit different - the Langspil, an old Icelandic string instrument
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| 1985: International Year of Music |
Mezzatin, a comic character from the Italian commedia dell'arte, who is interfering and devious but in this painting by Antoine Watteau he is lovelorn so no doubt playing a melancholy tune. Difficult to see on the stamp but the female statue in the background symbolically has her back to him.
Sunday Stamps theme this week is - Music Makers - See It On A Postcard
4 comments:
You have a great selection this week. I like the elegance of the first stamp, and what an unusual instrument the Langspil is.
There is something evocative about the first stamp with the disembodied hands.
The last two were a surprise - not sure I've ever seen Icelandic folk costumes before.
What a lovely array of stamps. In the last one, the painting is so much larger, I am sure, so the statue can more easily be seen.
We have coincided only in Liszt :)
As others have pointed, the design of the first stamp is powerful. But I love also Paul Lincke with all those roses around!
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