Category: Stamps

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)

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.
 

23.8.25: Austria / Germany / Guyana / Kosovo
31.8.25: Indonesia / Japan
6.9.25: Armenia / Croatia / Germany / Isle of Man / Monaco
13.9.25: Australia / Great Britain / Ireland / Japan / Monaco / Paraguay
21.9.25: China / Hungary / Portugal / San Marino

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Planned issues 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.

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.
 

5.4.25: Liberia / Serbia
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

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

Stamp of the Month: July 2025

Erik Satie


Bosnia-Herzegovina
Serbian Republic 9.12.2016
The French composer and pianist Erik Satie was born on May 17, 1866, in Honfleur. He died on July 1, 1925, in Paris. July 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of his death.
 
Satie received his first music lessons at the age of eight from the organist and choirmaster of the church in Honfleur. His father’s second wife, a concert pianist, composer, and music teacher, recognized his talent and enrolled him in 1879 at the Paris Conservatoire, but Satie dropped out after two and a half years. He began composing in 1884. His first pieces were published by his father’s publishing house. In 1887, he moved to the Parisian artists’ district of Montmartre, where he found a job as a pianist at the cabaret Le Chat Noir. In 1905, he resumed his music studies with Vincent d’Indy and Albert Roussel at the Schola Cantorum. Satie first gained notoriety thanks to his fellow musicians Claude Debussy and
Maurice Ravel, who performed his pieces in 1911. He gained the attention of the Parisian music world in 1917 with the premiere of his ballet “Parade,” created in collaboration with Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, and the Diaghilev troupe. He later received further recognition from the young composers of the Groupe des Six, which included Arthur Honegger and Darius Milhaud.
With his work, Satie influenced new music, jazz, and popular music alike. Key characteristics of his music are the simplicity, clarity, brevity, and straightforwardness, which make Satie a pioneer of minimal music. True to his conviction that the composer has no right to unnecessarily take up his listeners’ time, Satie developed his idea of ​​background music even before the introduction of radio.
Today, Satie’s “Gymnopédies” for solo piano are particularly well known; they are very popular with piano students because of their simplicity.

France 11.4.1992

In Memoriam: Eugen Doga

On June 3, 2025, the Moldovan-Russian, composer Eugen Doga died in Chișinău at the age of 88.
Eugen Doga was born on March 1, 1937, in Mocra (Moldavian Soviet Republic). After seven years of schooling, Eugen Doga went to Chișinău to enroll at the conservatory, which he had heard about on his homemade radio. Despite having no prior training, he was accepted to the “Ștefan Neaga” Conservatory and studied cello from 1951 to 1955. Since paralysis of his left hand prevented him from
pursuing a career as a solo cellist, he continued his studies at the Gavriil Musicescu Art Institute for five years, specializing in composition. After graduating from the conservatory, he was a member of the orchestra of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1957 to 1962, taught at the Stefan Neaga Music Academy in Chisinau from 1962 to 1967, and worked in the Ministry of Culture of the Republic

of Moldova from 1967 to 1972. From 1972 onward, he gave concerts throughout the Soviet Union and, after the collapse of the USSR, also delighted large international audiences.
Eugen Doga composed an opera, ballets, a symphony, string quartets, cantatas, choruses, songs, and romances, as well as numerous waltzes. He also composed music for more than 200 films.


The video shows Eugen Doga playing the piano during a performance of his waltz “Gramophon” with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ilarion Ionescu on June 21, 2014, at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest.