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 Radu Andron
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| General Description : | Karol Kazimierz Kurpiński (March 6, 1785) – (September 18, 1857, Warsaw) was a Polish composer, conductor and pedagogue. Karol began his studies under his father, Marcin Kurpiński, an organist. At the age of 12, he became organist at a church in Sarnowa near Rawicz, where his uncle Karol Wański was a parish priest. In 1800 his other uncle, the cellist Roch Wański, took him to the estate of count Feliks Polanowski near Lviv, who had a private orchestra of which Wański was a member, and in which the young Kurpiński played violin. |
| Face value | 5 zlotych |
| Catalog code (Michel) | PL 2856 |
| Catalog code (Scott) | PL 2562 |
| Catalog code | Yvert et Tellier PL 2669 Stanley Gibbons PL 2869 AFA number PL 2742 Polish Stamps Catalog (Fischer) PL 2708 |
| Stamp colour | dark sienna / light yellow brown |
| Stamp use | Commemorative stamp |
| Print run | 8.400.000 |
| Issue date | 25/03/1983 |
| Designer | Henryk Chyliński |
| Print technique | photogravure |
| Perforation | comb 11½ x 11 |
| Height | 40.00 mm |
| Width | 31.00 mm |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
