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Post by salentin on Mar 29, 2022 11:52:13 GMT
Günther Ramin (1898-1956),organist,chorister and composer. His life is closely connected to the "Thomaskirche" (St.Thomas church) in Leipzig. At the age of ten he became a singer in the "Thomaner Chorus" and went to the Thomas School. As an organ-player he became an international "star". Later he became the leader of the Thomaner Chorus and in 1939 the "Thomas Kantor",a position he held till his death. The "Thomas Kantor" is one of the most prestigious positions in the world of music,as it is
in the line of the successors of Johann Sebastian Bach. Ramin´s compositions contain many works for the organ and also chamber-music.
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Post by Linda on Mar 30, 2022 11:52:48 GMT
Here are the remaining historical figures commemorated by the 1957 series "International Music Festival Jubilee" issued in Czechoslovakia. Jan Václav Antonín Stamic (1717 - 1757), a Bohemian composer of the late Baroque and early Classical period.  The composer and violinist Josef Suk (1874 - 1935) is perhaps the best known figure of the entire series outside of Czech Republic, thanks to his many recordings that can be heard worldwide (his collaboration with the American pianist Julius Katchen has been amongst my favourites).  The other figures commemorated in this 1957 series of stamps are Ferdinand Laub, František Ondříček, Josef Bohuslav Foerster and Vítězslav Novák. I have been enjoyed these Czech musical gems that are not commonly heard in North America since I acquired this series of stamps. Stamp collecting really opens up a whole new world for me! |
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Post by salentin on Mar 31, 2022 13:19:56 GMT
Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling (1904-85) was a composer and music-academy professor. Many of his compostions were were spiritually-inspired. Kaminski and Bach were his idols. Stamp issued May 6th,2004.
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Post by eggdog on Apr 1, 2022 2:57:28 GMT
Here's Domenico Scarlatti - 1685-1757, an almost exact contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach.  He wrote about three million keyboard sonatas. I tried listening to some of them a few weeks ago and I really disliked them: constant rapid-fire notes without a second to breathe in between them. For some reason, just as I totally lost patience with Scarlatti, I found a disc of his music as played by András Schiff, and I listened to it, and I liked it a lot. I have the idea that Schiff dismissed a lot of what Scarlatti wanted, or what other performers thought Scarlatti wanted; he slowed it down, put a lot of dynamics (soft to loud) in, and unearthed melodies and moods that I had given up thinking could ever exist through all that clatter. Here are the remaining historical figures commemorated by the 1957 series "International Music Festival Jubilee" issued in Czechoslovakia. Jan Václav Antonín Stamic (1717 - 1757), a Bohemian composer of the late Baroque and early Classical period. That's interesting. I've always seen his name spelled "Stamitz". There was a bookstore near where I lived in high school, and the owner loved the Mannheim School composers. And I did see records with their compositions; Nonesuch had a couple with some really likeable caricature covers. But I couldn't tell you the last time I saw any of those guys on a concert program. Seems like many of those composers of that time who weren't Haydn or Mozart have kind of dropped off the radar? Many of his compostions were were spiritually-inspired. Kaminski and Bach were his idols. I'd never heard of this person, and I don't have the stamp even though I have many German stamps from that time. For that matter, I never heard of Kaminski either. |
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Post by salentin on Apr 1, 2022 7:20:36 GMT
Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) was a neo-romatic composer. A "Wagnerian" - he was Wagner´s assistant for 18 months -,he had difficulties to find his own style. Although he wrote many compositions,he is known today mainly for his fairy-tale-opera "Hänsel und Gretel". Hänsel und Gretel,first performance was 1893 in Weimar,is one of the most performed operas. Stamp issued Sept.9th,2004.
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Post by Linda on Apr 1, 2022 9:37:19 GMT
Carl Nielsen (1865 - 1913) is perhaps Denmark's most famous composer. On the left is the Danish stamp issued in 1965 to commemorate his birth centenary. On the right is a Danish stamp showing his birthplace, issued in 1974.  Here's Domenico Scarlatti - 1685-1757, an almost exact contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach. He wrote about three million keyboard sonatas. I tried listening to some of them a few weeks ago and I really disliked them: constant rapid-fire notes without a second to breathe in between them. For some reason, just as I totally lost patience with Scarlatti, I found a disc of his music as played by András Schiff, and I listened to it, and I liked it a lot. I have the idea that Schiff dismissed a lot of what Scarlatti wanted, or what other performers thought Scarlatti wanted; he slowed it down, put a lot of dynamics (soft to loud) in, and unearthed melodies and moods that I had given up thinking could ever exist through all that clatter. Interesting! I moderately like Scarlatti after hearing Marcelle Meyer and Yevgeny Sudbin's recordings longtime ago, though I admit it's very repetitive. Meyer has also brought back to the light of common days the keyboard music of Couperin and Rameau, Scarlatti's contemporaries. Recently, I also quite like Alexandre Tharaud's recordings of these composers, though I think he is better at the French repertoire (Couperin and Rameau). |
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Post by Linda on Apr 2, 2022 11:45:51 GMT
Otakar Ostrcil (1879 - 1935) was a Czech composer and conductor who spent his entire life in Prague. He was commemorated by a stamp released in 1960 as part of the series 'Cultural Anniversaries'.  Another composer commemorated in the same series of stamp release is Oskar Nedbal previously shared. The other stamps commemorate the actress Hana Kvapilova, the writer K.M. Čapek-Chod, and the painter Alfons Maria Mucha. |
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Post by salentin on Apr 2, 2022 13:19:15 GMT
L`Internationale The text was written by Eugène Portier (1816-87) as an agitation song during the Paris Commune 1871. It was sung to the melody of the "Marseillaise". In 1888 Pierre-Chretién de Geyter (1848-1932) wrote a new music for the text for the Lille workers congress. It became the hymn of the socialist and later communist movement. L`Internationale was adopted as national anthem by the Soviet Union,till a new anthem took her palce in 1943. Stamps issued June 18th,1963.
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Post by brightonpete on Apr 2, 2022 15:01:07 GMT
Here is Claude Debussy on a Jersey stamp of 3 in the Europa set with the theme of European Music Year. It features his famous "La Mer". He never regarded this as a symphony, but as symphonic sketches.
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Post by brightonpete on Apr 2, 2022 15:08:06 GMT
In the same set as Claude Debussy is John Nicholson Ireland (1879-1962.) He was an English composer and teacher of music. The majority of his output consists of piano miniatures and of songs with piano.
His best-known works include the short instrumental or orchestral work "The Holy Boy", a setting of the poem "Sea-Fever" by John Masefield, a formerly much-played Piano Concerto, the hymn tune Love Unknown and the choral motet "Greater Love Hath No Man". (from Wikipedia)
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Post by Linda on Apr 3, 2022 10:26:54 GMT
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860 - 1941) was a Polish piano virtuoso and composer who later became Poland's Prime Minister and foreign minister. Among the 7 Polish stamps issued after Poland's independence, this one issued in 1960 on the occasion of his birth centenary is the only one that shows Paderewski as a pianist.  |
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Post by salentin on Apr 3, 2022 12:32:39 GMT
  In 1949 the newly established DDR (GDR) - leadership wanted a new national anthem. Johannes R.Becher (1891-1958),poet and communist functionary,- he later became the first minister for cultural affairs of the DDR -,wrote the lyrics. Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962),Austrian by passport,wrote the music. Eisler,a composer of popular political songs,often in collaboration with Bert Brecht,was also a communist. Of his years in exile,he lived from 1938-1948 in the USA. There he wrote,to make a living,music for films and stage. However when the anti-communist witch-hunting started,he had to leave the USA and went to the GDR. The melody of the new anthem was a very catchy tune.However it was written as a new anthem for a united Germany. So when the GDR changed her politics and promoted an own national state (about in the 1970th) apart from West-Germany, the words of the anthem were no longer performed,but the tune remained till the end of the DDR. Leading (non-communist) politicians promoted the idea,to keep the tune for a new anthem for the united Germany, but it was disredarded by the (west-) german side. Stamps issued Oct.28th,1959 (Becher) and July 17th,1968 (Eisler).
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Post by Linda on Apr 4, 2022 13:45:55 GMT
Willem Pijper (1894 - 1947) was a Dutch composer, music critic and pedagogue. This stamp was issued in the Netherland in 1954.  |
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Post by Linda on Apr 5, 2022 10:58:56 GMT
Johann Joachim Quantz (1697 - 1773) was a German composer and flutist of the late Baroque period who composed several hundreds of flute sonatas and concertos, and wrote On Playing the Flute on flute performance. This stamp was issued in 1973 on the occasion of his death bicentenary.  |
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Post by eggdog on Apr 6, 2022 2:15:54 GMT
Dobri Hristov, issued by Bulgaria for the centenary of his birth.  Hristov was one of the first generation of Bulgarian composers, as attested by his page on the Union of Bulgarian Composers Web site. He was also one of the early among many Eastern European composers to study regional folk songs and mine their contents for motifs that could be incorporated into the European classical style - or bring from local obscurity into the general musical vocabulary of Bulgaria and Macedonia. Of course, he isn't well-known outside of Bulgaria. I can find no album on Idagio that is strictly devoted to his music. However, like many composers in the Orthodox lands, he composed a Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom and other sacred works, and his music appears on several anthologies of Orthodox church music. So he has contributed to music for children's choruses (which is a big thing in this musical nation), formal occasions, and folk singers, and basically to the whole tradition. (A note about choruses. I used to listen to a lot of shortwave radio back in the 1980s, back when there was no Internet and picking up radio stations from all over the world was a most excellent form of entertainment. One night I sat down to wrap Christmas presents, and I turned on the radio and found Radio Sofia - not the most exciting fare, but I figured it would do. It was the first Christmas season since the Communists packed it in, and people felt like it was safe to go back to church, so somebody from Radio Sofia brought a couple of mics into one of the cathedrals there, and they spent the full allocated hour broadcasting a high mass. I wasn't into choral music at the time and was pretty dubious of any of the season's cultural attributes, but I was stunned - this was some of the most beautiful stuff I'd ever heard in my life. And I also realized that this was the first time in 40 years or more that it could have happened. History was being made, and it sounded like it was 400 years old.) |
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Post by Linda on Apr 6, 2022 14:21:04 GMT
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 - 1764) was a French composer and music theorist of the Baroque period. His 1722 Treatise on Harmony became the definitive authority on music theory right after its publication. Later in his life, he devoted himself to the creation of French opera, but I remember him, alongside François Couperin whose stamp I earlier shared, mostly as a composer of keyboard music who has been popularised by contemporary pianists such as Marcelle Meyer and Alexandre Tharaud. This stamp was issued in 1953 in France.  |
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Post by salentin on Apr 7, 2022 17:21:37 GMT
Korla Awgust Kocor (1822-1904),composer,organizer of musical events and teacher. Kocor was a Sorb,who promoted the Sorbic musical culture. The Sorbs or Wends are a west-slavonic people,who live in the Lausitz (Saxony and Brandenburg). There are two different branches of the sorbic language. The Sorbs have cultural autonomy.So there are bi-lingual,Sorbic/German,schools,place-names etc.
It is not absolutely clear,how many Sorbs there are,guesses are between 60- and 100-thousand.
Issued Jan.25th,1972. (from a set of 5)
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Post by Linda on Apr 8, 2022 11:27:20 GMT
French composer Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) was often mentioned with his contemporary Claude Debussy as impressionist. He studied composition with Gabriel Fauré at the Conservatoire de Paris. Here in Montreal, we get to hear his Boléro (1928) a lot, which is some sort of signature of Montreal Symphony Orchestra. This French stamp was issued in 1956 as part of the series "Famous People".  |
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Post by Linda on Apr 9, 2022 10:19:56 GMT
Albert Roussel (1869 - 1937) was a French composer of the interwar period who had been influenced by Debussy and Ravel but who later turned towards neoclassicism. This stamp was issued in France in 1969 on the occasion of the composer's birth centenary.  |
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Post by Linda on Apr 10, 2022 11:30:42 GMT
I previously shared a series of 6 French stamps issued in 1992 entitled ' Famous Composers' that includes 3 members of Les Six. One of the remaining composers commemorated was the Romantic composer and organist César Franck (1822 - 1890) who was born in Liège, in modern-day Belgium, but spent most of his adult life in Paris. There is another Belgian stamp issued in 1985 in his honour.  Today Franck is perhaps best known for his violin sonata, the piano accompaniment of which is notoriously more difficult than the violin part (according to my violinist friend who is also a very good piano accompanist). |
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Post by Linda on Apr 13, 2022 10:59:45 GMT
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921) was a French composer of the Romantic era, and a contemporary of César Franck. In my opinion, Saint-Saëns is often underrated today. There are two stamps issued in France in honour of him. The first was issued in 1952 as part of the series 'Famous People', the second in 2021 on the occasion of the composer's death bicentenary.  |
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Post by Linda on Apr 14, 2022 11:03:12 GMT
Arnold Schönberg (1874 - 1951) was an Austrian composer, music theorist, and painter of Jewish descent who made ground-breaking advancement in modern music by developing twelve-tone technique. He is a composer whose works every music theorist today have to learn, regardless of his/her field of specialisation. This Austrian stamp was issued in 1974 on the occasion of the composer's birth centenary:  Even though Schönberg immigrated to United States and became an American citizen in 1941, no known American stamp was issued in memory of him. |
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Post by salentin on Apr 14, 2022 11:08:32 GMT
Arnold Schönberg: see also post in this thread from Jan.31st,2019.
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Post by Linda on Apr 15, 2022 9:18:38 GMT
salentin -- Sorry I didn't see your 2019 post before posting mine! Even though I usually do a quick search to see if the composer I intended to post has already been posted, with 8 pages and counting, this thread is growing too big for such a search to be easy  Paul Hofhaimer (or Hofhaymer, 1459 - 1537) was an Austrian organist and composer particularly gifted at improvisation. Although few of his compositions have survived in their original form, and his music is almost unheard today, he was considered a top musician of his age by many. This stamp was issued in Austria in 1987 on the occasion of Hofhaimer's 450th death anniversary: 
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Post by angore on Apr 15, 2022 9:54:55 GMT
Modern songs have composers as well as lyricists. I wonder when these will become composers rather than pop culture.
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Post by Linda on Apr 16, 2022 12:39:05 GMT
angore -- Personally, I don't think there is a clear-cut line of demarcation between pop and classical cultures. Also, many composers play at least one instrument, and many musicians do compose. So I have always hoped that this thread and the musician thread can be merged. Sometimes I am not too sure whether I should post a musically inclined person (call him/her composer or musician, the linguistic label doesn't matter) on the composer thread or the musician thread. My judgement relies on which one is the person better known, and in the case of the person composed, whether his works have been played and/or recorded to some extent. To this there were two exceptions, Clara Schumann and Paul Hofhaimer, whom I think should be considered more as instrumentalists but nevertheless got to be posted here. In the case of Clara Schumann, it's because I don't want to separate her from her husband, and in the case of Paul Hofhaimer, it's because his music is said to have 'a reputation in Europe outside of German-speaking countries' during his time, although little of his compositions survived to present day.
Manolis Kalomiris (1883 - 1962) was a Greek composer and the founder of the Greek National School of Music. This stamp was issued in 1983 as part of a set of 8 'Famous Greeks' series: 
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Post by Linda on Apr 18, 2022 13:06:54 GMT
Johann Strauss I (Vatar) (1804 - 1849) was an Austrian composer of the Romantic Period. Along with is competitor Joseph Lanner, he was especially famous for dance music, namely waltzes, polkas, and galops. Father of Johann Strauss II (Sohn). There are two Austrian stamps issued in his honour, the first in 1949 on the occasion of his death centenary, the second in 1999 on the occasion of the 150th death anniversary.  |
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Post by salentin on Apr 18, 2022 15:02:48 GMT
Compare to the post of Dec.3rd,2018.
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Post by Linda on Apr 19, 2022 12:59:35 GMT
Like his father, Johann Strauss II (1825 - 1899) was an Austrian composer, particularly of dance music and operettas. The abundance and the popularity of his waltz output has earned him the nickname of 'The Watlz King'. There are 4 Austrian stamps issued in memory of him, which are (from top left to bottom right):  (1) Issued in 1922 as part of a series of 7 stamps. For more information, please see this post. (2) Issued in 1949 on the occasion of the composer's 50th death anniversary. (3) Issued in 1975 on the occasion of the composer's 150th birth anniversary. (4) Issued in 1999 on the occasion of the composer's death centenary (pair with the stamp commemorating his father). Germany also issued one stamp in 1999 to commemorate the composer's death centenary that features Wilhelm Gause's painting Court Ball at the Hofburg (1900) and music score:  In Vienna, the Sohn is visibly more popular than the father. Here is the golden Johann Strauss II's statue at Stadtpark.  Here is Johann Strauss II's grave in Vienna.  |
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Post by Linda on Apr 20, 2022 12:15:10 GMT
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist of the Soviet-era. This stamp was issued in Soviet Union, USSR, in 1976 -- one year after the composer passed away.  |
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