Latvijas Pasts releases a special cover to commemorate Eduards Rozenštrauhs, a Latvian composer
13.08.2018
Latvijas Pasts has released a special cover and created a special postmark in honour of Eduards Rozenštrauhs (1918–1992), a Latvian songwriter and musician who would be 100 years old this year. The special cancellation of the cover is scheduled to take place in Riga post office No. 50 located in the shopping centre Origo, 2 Stacijas laukums, Riga from 8 AM to 7 PM on the 13th of August 2018.
The print run of the special cover is 1,000 copies, and it features not only a portrait of Eduards Rozenštrauhs, but also the lyrics of the musical pieces loved by people, such as Vecās likteņdzirnas (The Old Mills of Fate) and Ai, māte Latgale (Oh, Mother Latgale). The cover and the special postmark have been designed by the artist Ģirts Grīva.
E.Rozenštrauhs was born in Riga on the 13th of August 1918. Already in childhood he, together with his brother and sister, mastered how to play various musical instruments.
The composer E.Rozenštrauhs is the author of a number of musical pieces loved by people, including Zilais lakatiņš (The Blue Kerchief), Pa kuru laiku nosirmoja jūra (When the Sea Managed to Turned Grey), Tur, kur Gauja (There, Where the Gauja Is), Tiem, kas nepārnāca (To Those Who Did Not Return), Kādai meičai Cesvainē (To a Gal in Cesvaine) and others. Zilais lakatiņš with the lyrics by Valda Mora was included in the list of prohibited songs while the territory of Latvia was a Soviet Socialist Republic.
The new cover and the postmark can be viewed
here.
The next philatelic release is scheduled for the 7th of September.
About SJSC Latvijas Pasts
Latvijas Pasts ensures the widest availability of postal services throughout Latvia by maintaining more than 600 post offices. The primary function of the company is provision of the universal postal service; Latvijas Pasts also provides commercial transport, express mail, payment, press subscription, retail and philatelic services. Latvijas Pasts is a wholly State-owned company with around 4,000 employees. The quality measurements of Latvijas Pasts domestic mail deliveries are regularly conducted by Kantar TNS, one of the leading market, social and media research agencies in Latvia. In turn, the quality measurements of the cross-border deliveries are provided within the framework of the International Post Corporation through the intermediary of the research companies Kantar TNS, Ipsos and Quotas.
