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The great composers have popped up on postage stamps around the world. We've been exploring some of our favourites.
Beethoven on a stamp from Cyprus, 2011 Credit: Thinkstock
Mozart on an Austrian stamp. Credit: Thinkstock
J.S. Bach on a stamp from Cyprus, 2011. Credit: Thinkstock
Modest Musorgsky on a Russian stamp from 1989. Credit: Thinkstock
Sibelius graces a stamp from Finland. Credit: Thinkstock
Russian composer Tchaikovsky on a stamp from 1974. Credit: Thinkstock
Beethoven appears on a German stamp. Credit: Thinkstock
Liszt on a stamp from the DDR, 1973. Credit: Thinkstock
The great composer appears on a Cypriot stamp from 2011. Credit: Thinkstock
This German stamp celebrates Mozart not with a portrait, but with a picture of a piano. Credit: Thinkstock
A 1963 stamp from the USSR celebrating Wagner. Credit: Thinkstock
Shostakovich appears with an excerpt from the score for his 7th Symphony. Credit: Thinkstock
Russian composer Scriabin on a striking stamp. Credit: Thinkstock
A German stamp celebrating Handel. Credit: Thinkstock
Edvard Grieg, composer of 'Peer Gynt', appears on a stamp from the USSR. Credit: Thinkstock
The Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian appears on a stamp. Credit: Thinkstock
The father of the symphony, Joseph Haydn, on an Austrian stamp. Credit: Thinkstock
Not a composer, but a singer – one of the best tenors who ever lived, Enrico Caruso, appears on this American stamp. Credit: Thinkstock
The Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann – and some of his music on a German stamp. Credit: Thinkstock
The Polish composer Chopin appears on a stamp from Czechoslovakia. Credit: Thinkstock
This French stamp from 2002 celebrates the brilliant jazz composer and performer Duke Ellington. Credit: Thinkstock