{"id":40658,"date":"2026-08-10T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motivgruppe-musik.com\/?p=40658"},"modified":"2026-08-10T07:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:50:17","slug":"yehudi-menuhin-trophy-2026-schoenste-musikbriefmarke-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motivgruppe-musik.com\/en\/2026\/08\/10\/yehudi-menuhin-trophy-2026-schoenste-musikbriefmarke-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Yehudi Menuhin Trophy 2026 \u2013 Most popular Music Stamp 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Winning Stamp: Austria<\/strong><\/font>
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<\/center>Stamp issues marking significant anniversaries of famous figures from the worlds of culture, science, and politics have long been highly popular among postal authorities and collectors alike. Against this backdrop, it comes as no surprise that the stamp commemorating the 200th anniversary of the “Waltz King,” Johann Strauss<\/strong>, was voted the most popular music-themed stamp of 2025 by collectors worldwide, garnering 6.07% of the vote. Issued by Austrian Post on January 18, 2025, the stamp combines the figure from the Johann Strauss monument in Vienna\u2019s Stadtpark with a detail from the title page of the first edition of the piano score for the waltz “The Blue Danube” (*An der sch\u00f6nen blauen Donau*), published by C.A. Spina in Vienna in 1867. The stamp was designed by Viennese artist Kirsten Lubach, who is being honored with the 2026 Yehudi Menuhin Trophy for her work.
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\nBorn in Troisdorf in 1973, Kirsten Lubach<\/strong> trained as an engraver at the Zeichenakademie in Hanau. She subsequently pursued further studies in Lahti, Finland, on a scholarship and qualified as a master engraver there in 1999. After working for a specialiced firm for several years, she moved to the Austrian State Printing Office in 2003, where she was initially responsible for correcting and retouching printing plates. The first stamp she engraved \u2014 part of the “Wildlife of Austria” series \u2014 was released in 2006. In 2012, Lubach became self-employed, opening her own copperplate engraving and printing studio in Vienna. Over the years, she has designed numerous stamps for various postal authorities and already received the Yehudi Menuhin Trophy in 2023 for the “Trombone” stamp \u2014 part of the “Musical Austria” series \u2014 which was voted the most popular music-themed stamp of 2022.
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\nWith 4.59% of the vote, the Christmas stamp “The Pixies’ Christmas”<\/strong> from the Faroe Islands \u2014 issued on October 20, 2025 \u2014 took second place. The stamp was designed by Janus \u00e1 H\u00fasagar\u00f0i<\/strong>, a Faroese photographer and visual artist based in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, Iceland.
\nTaking third place with 4.43% of the vote was the German stamp “Semper Opera House”<\/strong> from the “Historic Buildings in Germany” series; for its design, graphic artist Jan-Niklas Kr\u00f6ger<\/strong> \u2014 part of Deutsche Post\u2019s graphic design team \u2014 utilized the AI \u200b\u200bimage generator DALL\u00b7E.
\nIt is fascinating to observe the diverse graphic approaches taken with these three stamps: ranging from collage and poetic, fairy-tale-style illustration to the use of artificial intelligence \u2014 though one hopes that postal authorities will not succumb to the temptation of replacing the craftsmanship of graphic artists with AI.
\nOnce again, stamps from 66 postal authorities were in the running for the title of “Most Popular Music Stamp of 2025” and collectors from 36 countries participated in the online vote.
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Here you will find all the candidates for the election of the most popular music stamp of 2025.<\/a>
\nHere you will find all previous winners of the Yehudi Menuhin Trophy.<\/a><\/center><\/center><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Winning Stamp: Austria Designed by Kirsten Lubach      Stamp issues marking significant anniversaries of famous figures from the worlds of culture, science, and politics have long been highly popular among postal authorities and collectors alike. Against this backdrop, it comes as no surprise that the stamp commemorating the 200th anniversary of the “Waltz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motivgruppe-musik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motivgruppe-musik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motivgruppe-musik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motivgruppe-musik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motivgruppe-musik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.motivgruppe-musik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40693,"href":"https:\/\/www.motivgruppe-musik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40658\/revisions\/40693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motivgruppe-musik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motivgruppe-musik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motivgruppe-musik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motivgruppe-musik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}