The 125th birth anniversary of Heino Eller

On March 07, 2012,  Estonia post issued the personality stamp set, and presented Heino Eller, an Estonian composer. The issue is only one stamp depicted his face with background of music note for celebrating the 125th of his birth anniversary.

Heino Eller (7 March 1887 – 16 June 1970), an Estonian composer and music teacher, graduated from the St Petersburg Conservatory, specializing in composition and music theory. 

In 1920 he returned to Estonia and set down to work at the Tartu Higher Music School as a teacher of theory and composition, laying the basis to a new generation of Estonian musicians whose bright names, such as Eduard Tubin, Alfred Karindi, Richard Ritsing, Karl Leichter, Olav Roots and Eduard Oja have become known as Eller's Tartu school.

The 200th Anniversary of Franz Liszt - Luxembourg

 

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.

The 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Franz Liszt

 

The German Post has issued a stamp celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. Liszt became renowned throughout Europe during the 19th century for his great skill as a performer. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age and perhaps the greatest pianist of all time.

Birth Bicentenary of Frédéric Chopin

 

On the 22nd of February 2010, the Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) issued the stamp set “Birth bicentenary of Frédéric Chopin (22/02/1810-17/10/1849)” consisting of 01 value of 2,000 đ.

 

The stamp set presented the picture of Frédéric Chopin against the image of his famous Ballade No.1 on the background of the picture of piano and the number of 200. That is a perfect lay-out of the stamp.

Frédéric Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He was one of the great masters of Romantic music. Chopin was born in the village of Żelazowa Wola, in the Duchy of Warsawa.

He was regarded as a child-prodigy pianist. Seven-year old Chopin composed two Polonaises, in G minor and B-flat major.

Gustav Ernesaks, birth centenary of the composer and choir conductor

The Estonia Post issued the personalise stamp series on the first January 2008 that features Gustav Ernesaks. Gustav Ernesaks was an Estonian composer and a choir conductor. The issued stamp is only one stamp  depicted him was in conducting action and one First Day Cover.

Gustav Ernesaks was born on 12 December 1908 at Perila near Tallinn. After graduating from the Tallinn Conservatoire in 1931, he worked for a longer period as teacher of music and in 1944-72 as lecturer at the Tallinn State Conservatoire (Professor since 1945).

He conducted several choirs and in 1944 called into existence the celebrated State Academic Male Choir (RAM), serving as its chief conductor until 1975 and as its artistic director up to the end of his days.

FRYDERYK CHOPIN'S YEAR

On February 2010, Polish Post issued the stamp series depicted Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, to commemorate bicentenary of his birthday . The issuance comprised of 2 souvenir sheet depicted his statue.

Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, was a Polish composer, virtuoso pianist, and music teacher, of French-Polish parentage. He was one of the great masters of Romantic music.

Chopin was born on  1 March 1810 in Żelazowa Wola, a village in the Duchy of Warsaw. A renowned child-prodigy pianist and composer, he grew up in Warsaw and completed his musical education there.