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  • Commemorative Stamp
  • 5 December 1991

Death Bicentenary of Mozart

A portrait of Mozart, on his death bicentenary.

Date of issue December 5, 1991
Denomination Rs. 6.50
Quantity printed 600000
Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik
Perforation comb 13¼ x 13½
Watermark No Watermark
Colours Multicolor
Printing process Photogravure
Catalogue codes Michel IN 1334 Stamp Number IN 1391 Yvert et Tellier IN 1134 Stanley Gibbons IN 1484

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A portrait of Mozart in profile, in dark coat and white stock, with his name in Hindi and English, on a ₹6.50 stamp.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

India Post issued this ₹6.50 stamp on 5 December 1991, two hundred years after Mozart’s death in Vienna. Born in Salzburg in 1756, he amazed Europe as a child prodigy. In his short life he composed 41 symphonies, 27 piano concertos, 26 string quartets and 13 full-scale operas, and he was still at work on his Requiem when he died.

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