In the year 2011, the music world commemorates the 200th anniversary of the birth and the 125th anniversary of the death of composer and virtuoso Franz Liszt.
The Luxembourg Post also issued the stamp set even only one stamp on September 27, 2011. The issued stamp depicted the paint of Franz Liszt.
At the end of his life, Liszt maintained a close relationship with his friend, Hungarian painter Mihàly de Munkàcsy and his Luxembourgish wife Cécile Papier. The deep friendship with the painter started in 1882, when the two men first met in Budapest.
At the end of April 1886, Liszt lived as a guest in the Parisian residence of the Munkàcsys. On the following 5 July, Liszt, now very ill, decided to take a rest break at the summer residence of the Munkàcsys in Colpach.
On 19 July, a concert honoring the composer was organized by the Casino of Luxembourg. At the end of this event, Franz Liszt played three of his own compositions to thank the audience for the honor they had bestowed on him. The next day, Liszt left Luxembourg for Bayreuth where he died 12 days later on 31 July 1886.Thus, Franz Liszt gave his last public concert in Luxembourg.
The paint of Franz Liszt by Roland Schauls use as theme on this stamp. Roland Schauls was born on 1 February 1953, is a Luxembourgish artist who works in Stuttgart, Germany, and in Luxembourg. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart (1974-1982) and taught as a professor at Stuttgart’s Ecole d’Art Libre. He presently works as an independent artist. In 1988, the Cercle Artistique de Luxembourg awarded him the Pierre Werner prize. (Souce: Luxemberg Post Bulletin)
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