The stamp shows a wooden sculpture of the composer, made by Waclaw Szymanowski; the first page of the partiture of the Minute Walz and the polish flag.
Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation."
