On January 30, an envelope with a commemorative stamp dedicated to the 125th Birth Anniversary of composer Isaak Dunayevsky was put into postal circulation

Isaak Dunaevsky (1900-1955) was a Soviet composer and conductor, a People's Artist of the RSFSR (1950).

Isaak Dunaevsky was born on January 30 of 1900 in the town of Lokhvitsa of the Poltava Province. From his very childhood, he showed remarkable musical abilities: at the age of five, he picked out melodies of marches and waltzes on the piano and improvised at home evenings. From the age of eight, he took violin lessons. In 1919, he graduated from the Kharkov Conservatory in violin class. From 1924, he was the Musical Director of the Hermitage Theater, and from 1926, he headed the musical section of the Satire Theater and the Moscow Operetta Theater, where in 1927, his operetta The Grooms was successfully staged.

Being one of the founders of Soviet operetta and musical film comedy, Isaak Dunayevsky made music one of the main components of the drama of the story. The Jolly Fellows film (1934) and a number of subsequent ones brought wide fame to the composer. From 1934 to 1940, he composed music for 16 films. He also often participated in voiceovers, played the piano and sang.

During the Great Patriotic War, he led the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Central House of Culture of Railway men; on numerous occasions performed for soldiers in military units and hospitals, and for workers at defense plants.

Among the composer's famous compositions, there are operettas The Grooms, The Golden Valley, Free Wind, White Acacia, and others; films Jolly Fellows, Circus, Volga-Volga, etc.; and songs My Moscow, Song about the Motherland, March of the Jolly Fellows, Song about the Merry Wind, Oi, Tsvetet Kalina (Oh, the Viburnum Blossoms), etc.

The commemorative stamp provides a portrait of Isaak Dunayevsky; the main image features the composer at the piano.

In addition to the issue of the envelope with a commemorative stamp, JSC Marka produced special cancels for Moscow and St. Petersburg.


Design Artist: V. Khablovsy.
Quantity: 500 thousand envelopes.

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