Along with works of literature, films, and visual arts, various historical events of our country were also widely reflected in the musical works of composers, musicians and poets. Many authors of military works often relied both on their own personal and frontline experience and on the stories of other people.
Vasily Agapkin (1884–1964) was a Russian military composer, a musician and conductor, a Colonel.
He earned fame as the composer of the music for legendary march Farewell of Slavyanka. Besides, among the composer's works there were the Cavalry March and the Lieutenant march; waltzes Blue Night, Night over Moscow, Magic Dream, Musician's Love, and An Orphan; instrumental pieces On the Shore of the Black Sea, A Daughter of the Street, DneproGES, Lucya’s Eyes, Old Waltz and others.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Vasily Agapkin against the background of the cover and music score of march Farewell of Slavyanka.
Alexander Alexandrov (1883-1946) was a Soviet composer, a choral conductor, a choirmaster, a tutor, a People's Artist of the USSR, a Major General.
During the years of the Great Patriotic War, the most famous works were The Sacred War (words by V. Lebedev-Kumach, 1941), For the Great Soviet Land (words by V. Lebedev-Kumach, 1941), A Song about the Soviet Union (words by M. Golodny, 1942), Bloom, Bloom Soviet Country (words by V. Lebedev-Kumach, 1943) and others.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of composer Alexander Alexandrov against the background of the cover and music score of song The Sacred War.
Mark Fradkin (1914–1990) was a Soviet composer, a People's Artist of the USSR (1985), a Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1979).
M. Fradkin's songs gained wide recognition during the Great Patriotic War. He composed such works as A Song about the Dnieper (words by E. Dolmatovsky, 1941), A Song about the Volga Bogatyr, A Song of the Stalingrad Victory, The Random Waltz, The Road to Berlin (Streets of the Road or The Bryansk Street, words by E. Dolmatovsky, 1944), The Leningrad Ballad (words by M. Plyatskovsky), For That Guy (Something Has Happened to My Memory..., words by R. Rozhdestvensky) and others.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of composer Mark Fradkin against the background of the cover and music score of song The Random Waltz.
Valery Khalilov (1952–2016) was a Soviet and Russian conductor and a composer. The Head of the ensemble – the Artistic Director of the Alexandrov Academic Choir and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army (from April to December of 2016). He was the Head of the Military Orchestral Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Chief Military Conductor (2002-2016). a Lieutenant General (2010). Valery Khalilov was a member of the Union of Composers of Russia, a People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2014).
He is the author of pieces for brass band: An Adagio, An Elegy; of marches: A Cadet, The Young People’s March, A Noon Bell, An Ulan, of romances and songs.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Valery Khalilov against the background of the cover of the book and music score of Music for Brass Orchestra.
Semyon Chernetsky (1881–1950) was a military conductor, a composer, the initiator and the leader of the first Soviet military orchestras, one of the creators of the Soviet military march, a music teacher, a Major General (1943), an inspector of the Red Army military orchestras in 1924-1949.
He is the author of more than 100 marches, patriotic songs and other music works. Among them, there are social and political Glory to the Motherland, The Lenin Enrolment, The March of Moscow Pioneers, industrial pieces: Industrial, Native Donbass and national Russian, Slavic, Azerbaijanian and others.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Semyon Chernetsky against the background of the cover of a book and music score of the march of the 53rd Guards Rifle Division.
Ilya Shatrov (1879–1952) was a Russian and Soviet military musician, a kapellmeister, a composer, a Guards Major.
Among his most well-known pieces are waltzes On the Hills of Manchuria (1906), Country House Daydreams, Autumn has Come (words by Ya. F. Prigozhy, 1910), Blue Night in Port Arthu and others.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of composer Ilya Shatrov against the background of the cover and music score of waltz On the Hills of Manchuria.
In addition to the issue of the postage stamps, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Ryazan and Tambov.
Design Artist: V. Khablovsky.
Face value: 80 rubles.
Stamp size: 32.5×32.5 mm, sheet size: 118×124 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins (3×3) with 6 stamps and a coupon. Quantity: 18 thousand sheets.
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