The members only section of our website contains a collection of checklists about various topics of music philately. The collection is constantly expanding and can be read online by our members.
29.3.20: Female dancers (updated) / opera houses (updated)
3.7.20: Clarinet (new) / Saxophone (new)
3.9.20: Ballroom Dance (updated)
5.2.21: Beethoven (updated)
12.4.21: Musicians on banknotes and coins on stamps (new)
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New articles in our Library
The library of our study group contains an extensive collection of philatelic magazine articles from all areas of music philately. These articles can be read online by our members.
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“Der Musikus” No. 146 has been issued
Our bulletin “Der Musikus” No. 146 has been issued.
This time the main article deals with Richard Wagner’s life line along the number 13.
Take a look to the table of content.
Members of Motivgruppe Musik can read the bulletin online.
New copies of Exhibits
On our website, copies of numerous (partly historical) exhibits can be viewed.
“Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy – A Special Chapter in Music History”
“Franz Schubert – Not only a Songwriter”
“In the Footsteps of Richard Wagner”
Copies of exhibits (members only)
“Der Musikus” No. 145 has been issued
Our bulletin “Der Musikus” No. 145 has been issued.
This time the main article deals with Beethoven’s youth, when he was very much oriented towards his great role model Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Take a look to the table of content.
Members of Motivgruppe Musik can read the bulletin online.
Seid umschlungen Millionen !
(Be embraced, millions !)
“Seid umschlungen Millionen !”
Cover story of the magazine “philatelie”
December 2020
You can read the article here.
Published with the kind permission of the
German Philatelic Society (BDPh)
Stamp of the Month: November 2020
To mark the 80th anniversary of the first screening of the Bugs Bunny short films, a series of 10 stamps with scenes from these comics was released in the USA. One of the stamps shows Bugs Bunny as a pianist in “Rhapsody Rabbit”. This animated short film was part of the “Merrie Melodies Series” and was produced under the direction of Friz Freleng. It was released in cinemas on November 9, 1946 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Like all short films in the “Merrie Melodies Series”, “Rhapsody Rabbit” was accompanied by a piece of music: Bugs Bunny plays Franz Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2”. The pianist was the American composer and arranger Carl W. Stalling (1891-1972).

USA 27.7.2020
Stamp of the Month: October 2020
The Greek actress, singer and politician Melina Mercouri was born on October 18, 1920 in Athens. She died in New York on March 6, 1994. October 2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of her birthday.
Melina (actually Maria Amalia) Mercouri came from an upper class family. From 1939 she went to drama school and made her debut at the Greek National Theater in Athens in 1944 in an avant-garde play by Alexis Solomos. The reviews were that the actress was “too young, too tall, too blonde, clumsy, talentless”. After appearing in the provinces, she played briefly in Paris before getting her first film role in 1955. She became known to international audiences in 1960 through the film comedy “Never on

Greece 7.3.1995
After the success of “Never on Sunday” Melina Mercouri starred in other films such as “Phaedra” and “Topkapi” and the lead role in the Broadway musical “Illya Darling”.
During the seven-year military dictatorship in Greece, Melina Mercouri lived in exile in France from 1967 to 1974 and made her criticism of the regime clear on the tours that took her as a singer around the world. After the overthrow of the military junta, she was elected as a member of the Greek parliament in 1977, from 1981 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 1994, Melina Mercouri was Greek Minister of Culture. The establishment of the annual European Capital of Culture goes back to her initiative.



“Der Musikus” No. 144 has been issued
Our bulletin “Der Musikus” No. 144 has been issued.
The main article deals with choro music in Brazil and of course there is also something about “Beethoven”.
Take a look to the table of content.
Members of Motivgruppe Musik can read the bulletin online.
New Articles on the Internet
The philatelic press occasionally releases articles about music philately on their websites. We regularly update the links to new articles which are known to us.
7.1.: The King’s Birthday: Vor 85 Jahren kam Elvis Presley zur Welt
30.3.: Krzysztof Penderecki 1933-2020
24.7.: Amália Rodrigues: 100. Geburtstag der Queen des Fado
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