Abba on Stamps – Music in Sweden 1983
01 Oct 1983 was declared World Music Day by UNESCO International Music Council. Sweden issued a miniature sheet on the theme Music in Sweden on 01 Oct 1983. All stamps are engraved by Czeslaw Slania (1921-2005). The Musicians featured on stamps are
1.80 Kr – Classic Music- Stamp shows Sweden’s greatest Composer, Conductor & Pianist Wilhelm Stenhammar. Engraving based on an expressive portrait by Robert Thegerstrom
1.80 Kr – Jazz – Swedish Saxophonist Lars Gullin (1928-1976).He specialized in unusual baritone sax.
1.80 Kr – Folk Music – “The Fiddler” painting by Anders Zorn ( 1860-1920). For the engraving of this stamp, C Slania received in 1984 the special Robert Stolz -award from Philatelic Music Circle.
1.80 Kr – Opera – Karl Birger Blomdahl’s Space Opera Aniara (First performed in Stockholm in 1959)
1.80 Kr – Pop – Famous Musicians from ABBA band. Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Anni- Frid Lyngstad & Benny Andersson. Picture of ABBA was taken by Anders Hansen
Stamp Digest 