Category: Stamps

New Stamps 2025

Every year, numerous new stamps are issued on the theme of music. The list of new issues published in the members-only-section of our website is updated several times per month.
 

21.9.25: China / Hungary / Portugal / San Marino
4.10.25: Australia / France/ Lithuania / Macau / Moldova / Netherlands / Norway / Poland / Romania / Slovenia
10.10.25: Togo
13.10.25: Alderney / Belarus / Bosnia-Herzegovina / Germany / Guernsey / Liechtenstein / Switzerland
19.10.25: Croatia / India / Italy / Kyrgyzstan / Mongolia / Poland / Romania / Spain
2.11.25: Australia / China / Cyprus / Finland / Gibraltar / Great Britain / Hungary / Isle of Man /  Israel / Italy / Japan / Mexico / Myanmar / Spain 

Stamps Europe (members only)  Stamps Overseas (members only)
 
Planned issues 2025 (members only)

Stamp of the Month: November 2025

Tina Turner

Germany 3.11.2025
American singer Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock) was born on November 26, 1939, in Brownsville, Tennessee. She died on May 24, 2023, in Küsnacht on Lake Zurich.
 
Tina Turner’s singing in the church choir was already noticeable as a child. In 1955, she met musician and talent scout Ike Turner in St. Louis, who initially hired her as a background singer for
his “Kings of Rhythm”. As “Ike and Tina Turner”, the two were among the most impressive live acts for many years. Their international breakthrough came in 1969 when they were booked as the opening act for several Rolling Stones concerts. However, their marriage, which began in 1962, ended in divorce. Starting out as a solo artist proved difficult, as Tina Turner was considered an aging black singer in the music scene, and no one believed in her anymore. Australian producer Roger Davies suggested to record electronic music, which was very popular in England at the time. With the resulting album, “Private Dancer,” Tina Turner made an incredible comeback in 1984. The album sold over 20 million copies, and the song “What’s Love Got to Do with It” won three Grammy Awards. At the age of 45, she returned to the stage and instantly became a global superstar.
In 1988, she broke all previous attendance records when she was cheered by 180,000 fans in Rio de Janeiro. Her studio albums “Break Every Rule” (1986), “Foreign Affair” (1989), “Wildest Dreams” (1996), and “Twenty Four Seven” (1999) also became multi-platinum sellers. In 2008, at the age of 69, Tina Turner embarked on a world tour, after which she announced her retirement from performing. Tina Turner received a total of eight Grammy Awards, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and two World Music Awards. In 1991, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with her ex-husband, and again in 2021 as a solo artist.

Togo 5.7.2019


The video shows Tina Turner performing her hit “The Best” from the album “Foreign Affair” (1989). However, the song is a cover version; the original is by British singer Bonnie Tyler.

New Stamps 2024

Every year, numerous new stamps are issued on the theme of music. The list of new issues published in the members-only-section of our website is updated several times per month.
 

15.4.25: Bosnia-Herzegovina / Guinea / Latvia / Lithuania / Thailand
28.4.25: Guinea-Bissau / Liberia / Sierra Leone
30.5.25: Central African Republic / Djibouti / Guinea / Guinea-Bissau / Sierra Leone
5.7.25: Central African Republic / France / Guinea / Sierra Leone
15.10.25: Frankreich / Guinea / Zentralafrikanische Republik

Stamps Europe (members only)  Stamps Overseas (members only)
 
Planned issues 2025 (members only)

Stamp of the Month: October 2025

Johann Strauss II

The Austrian composer Johann Baptist Strauss was born on October 25, 1825, in St. Ulrich. He died on June 3, 1899, in Vienna. October 2025 marks the 200th anniversary of his birth.
 
Johann Strauss was nicknamed “Son” to distinguish him from his father of the same name, who feared competition within his own family and therefore actually envisioned a civil service career for his sons. Against his father’s wishes, his mother enabled young Johann to study music. Already the son’s very first performance in a Viennese concert café was a huge success. After his father’s death, he merged the two orchestras.
In 1848, Johann Strauss sympathized with the insurgents of the German Revolution. This led to some of his compositions being banned, and despite his popularity, he temporarily fell out of favor at

Austria 18.1.2025
the royal and imperial court. In 1863, he was nevertheless appointed music director of the Imperial and Royal Court Ball. From then on, he also composed dance music for the court balls he conducted,


Serbia 27.6.2025
with sheet music of the waltz
“The Beautiful Blue Danube”
including the waltz “The Beautiful Blue Danube” in 1867, which is now considered the unofficial anthem of Austria.
In 1864, Johann Strauss met Jacques Offenbach, who introduced him to operetta. In 1871, he performed his first operetta, “Indigo and the 40 Robbers,” in Vienna, and in 1874, his arguably best-known operetta, “Die Fledermaus,” premiered at the Theater an der Wien. The work was added to the repertoire of the Vienna State Opera in 1894 and is the only operetta performed there to this day.
 
The oeuvre of the composer, internationally known as the “Waltz King,” includes twenty operettas, around 500 waltzes, polkas, and marches, as well as a ballet and an opera.


The video shows André Rieu and his orchestra performing the waltz “The Beautiful Blue Danube” by Johann Strauss II., recorded live on September 16, 2011 in Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace with dancers from the famous Austrian dance school Elmayer.

New Stamps by Private Postal Services

Private Postal Services too release stamps related to music. Members will find a list with the latest issues in the members only section.
 


5.7.24: Post Modern (Dresden)
8.12.24: Biberpost (Magdeburg) / BW Post (Stuttgart) / MZZ (Halle) / NordBrief (Schleswig) / Post Modern (Dresden)
3.2.25: Citipost (Hannover)
29.3.25: Citipost (Bielefeld) / RPV (Cottbus)
2.6.25: BW Post (Stuttgart) / LMF (Augsburg) / Nordkurier (Neubrandenburg) / Post Modern (Dresden) / RPV (Cottbus)
21.9.25: BW Post (Stuttgart) / Citipost (Weserbergland) / Nordbrief (Rendsburg) / MZZ (Halle) / Openmail (Portugal) / POST Modern (Dresden)
Private Postal Services 2024 (Members only)
Private Postal Services 2025 (Members only)

Stamp of the Month: September 2025

Leo Fall

The Austrian composer Leo Fall was born on February 2, 1873, in Olomouc. He died on September 16, 1925, in Vienna. September 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of his death.
 
Leo Fall and his two brothers were destined for a professional future. Sons of a military bandmaster who also composed dance music and operettas, they could read music before they even learned to write. Leo Fall attended the Vienna Conservatory and began his career as an orchestral musician in a Berlin variety show. From 1892 to 1898, he worked as a conductor in Hamburg, then held the same position in Berlin at the Central Theater (1898-1901), the Metropol Theater (1901/1902), and the Secession Theater (1902/1903). When his first operas remained unsuccessful, he became the house composer of the Berlin cabaret “Böse Buben” at the Berlin Künstlerhaus, where

Austria 16.9.1975
he wrote the music for numerous couplets.From 1906 onwards, Leo Fall devoted himself exclusively to composition, and between 1907 and 1908 he finally achieved his breakthrough as an operetta composer with the three operettas “Der fidele Bauer”, “Die Dollarprinzessin” (The Dollar Princess), and “Die geschiedene Frau” (The Divorced Woman). With his works, which range from the Viennese waltz, the hits of the 1920s, and the beginnings of jazz, Leo Fall, alongside Franz Lehár, Oscar Straus, and Robert Stolz, is one of the great names of the so-called “Silver Operetta.” Many songs from his operettas have been released on record by well-known artists. The singer Fritzi Massary played a significant role in the success of his later operettas; for her, Leo Fall composed the leading roles in, for example, “Die Kaiserin” (1916), “Rose von Stambul” (1916), and “Madame Pompadour” (1922).
 

The video shows two numbers from the operetta film “Der liebe Augustin” (1962) by Leo Fall.
Peter Minich and Christine Görner sing “And the sky hangs full of violins” and
Christine Görner, Heinz Maria Lins, and Friedel Blasius sing “Where is that written?”

Stamp of the Month: August 2025

Oscar Peterson


Austria 19.11.2003
The Canadian jazz pianist and composer Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was born on August 15, 1925, in Montreal. He died on December 23, 2007, in Mississauga. Oscar Peterson would have turned 100 in August 2025.
 
Oscar Peterson began piano lessons at the age of six with his sister Daisy. At 14, he won an amateur competition that made him so popular that he earned his own local radio show. As a member of the Johnny Holmes Orchestra, he began learning composing and arranging in 1944 and formed his
first trio in 1947. In 1949, the American jazz impresario and producer Norman Granz discovered the young pianist’s talent and featured him as a surprise guest at New York’s Carnegie Hall as part of his Jazz at the Philharmonic tour. The trios founded by Oscar Peterson in 1952 and 1958 with Ray Brown, Barney Kessel (sometimes Herb Ellis) and J. C. Heard (later Ed Thigpen) are still among the most successful in jazz history.
From the mid-1950s onwards, Oscar Peterson gave numerous concerts with well-known jazz greats such as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie and the Modern Jazz Quartet. In the late 1960s, he increasingly appeared as a soloist. Oscar Peterson is considered one of the most successful jazz pianists of all time. In his 65-year career, he played at thousands of concerts and produced well over 100 albums. His fame is also reflected in the seven Grammys he received between 1975 and 1991. In 1978, he was one of the first two artists to be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, and in 1993 he was awarded the Glenn Gould Lifetime Achievement Award.


Canada 15.8.2005


The video features Oscar Peterson with John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra performing
“Body and Soul” composed by John W. Green. The recording was made during a television show
on July 13, 1980.

In Memoriam: Ozzy Osbourne

On July 22, 2025, British rock musician “Ozzy” Osbourne died in Jordans, Great Britain, at the age of 76.
 
Ozzy (John Michael) Osbourne was born on December 3, 1948, in Birmingham. After dropping out of school and working several unskilled jobs, he formed a band with Terry Butler, Tony Iommi, and Bill Ward in 1968, which was renamed “Black Sabbath” in 1969. Similar to the bands “Led Zeppelin” and “Deep Purple”, “Black Sabbath” pushed the hard rock of the time into increasingly heavier forms and, since the release of their debut album, has been considered the founders of “heavy metal.” In the 1970s, the band’s heyday, Ozzy Osbourne’s vocals shaped the band’s sound. Due to his drug problems, “Black Sabbath” parted ways with Osbourne in 1979. Osbourne achieved some success as a solo artist in the 1980s
and 1990s and regained popularity in the early 2000s through the MTV reality series “The Osbournes”.
In 1997, “Black Sabbath” reunited and toured several times with different lineups until 2017. The last concert with the original lineup, a benefit concert for a children’s hospice entitled “Back to the Beginning,” took place in Birmingham on July 5, 2025. Seventeen days after the concert, Ozzy Osbourne died at the age of 76.
 

The video features Ozzy Osbourne performing the song “Dreamer,” which he wrote in 2000. Osbourne described the song, which was released as a single from the 2002 studio album “Down to Earth,” as his favorite song.

In Memoriam: Connie Francis

On July 16, 2025, the American pop and hit singer Connie Francis passed away in Broward Health North, Florida, at the age of 87.
 
Connie Francis (Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero) was born on December 12, 1937, in Newark, New Jersey. As a child, she performed at local festivals and talent shows as a singer and accordion player and was a cast member of the NBC entertainment program “Startime Kids” from 1951 to 1955. After several unsuccessful recording sessions, she achieved a hit in 1958, almost by chance, with the song “Who’s Sorry Now?”, which sold more than a million copies within a few weeks. Through foreign-language cover versions of her own hits, Connie Francis became an international pop music star in the 1960s. In addition to her recordings, she was a sought-after live artist in the showplaces of Las Vegas and New York
City and performed in important international concert halls such as the London Palladium and the Olympia in Paris. While Connie Francis’s singles focused almost exclusively on commercialism and followed current trends of the time such as rock ‘n’ roll, twist, and the girl group sound, her albums presented her work in a wide variety of styles, including rhythm and blues, vocal jazz, country music, musical melodies, children’s songs, sacred music, traditional songs from various ethnic groups, as well as film soundtracks and portraits of well-known composers such as Burt Bacharach. With a few brief interruptions, Connie Francis was active on stage until the 2010s. She ended her stage career in 2017 with the publication of her autobiography.
 

The video shows Connie Francis performing one of her biggest hits, “Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool,” during an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on June 12, 1960.