Wonderful, the Ives postage stamp!
Since the United States Post Office issued its first stamp in 1847, over 4,000 stamps have been issued and over 800 people featured.
But they have not had the pleasure to see their face on the stamp because the first condition is to be dead.
Here is the list of composers with the year they were first featured on a stamp. There are also some jazz musicians and songwriters, not in this list.
- Samuel Barber (1997)
- Leonard Bernstein (2001)
- George Gershwin (1973)
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1997)
- Ferde Grofé (1997)
- Victor Herbert (1940)
- Bernard Herrmann (1999) – musica per film come Psyco, Citizen Kane, Cape Fear e Taxi Driver
- Charles Ives (1997)
- Erich Korngold (1999) – uno dei primi neo-romantici
- Frank Loesser (1999)
- Frederick Loewe (1999)
- Edward MacDowell (1940)
- Henry Mancini (2004)
- Ethelbert Nevin (1940)
- Alfred Newman (1999) – musica da film; ha avuto 45 nomination e ne ha vinte 9
- Cole Porter (1991)
- Richard Rodgers (1999) – Broadway
- John Philip Sousa (1940)
- Max Steiner (1999) – musica da film
- Igor Stravinsky (1982)
- George Szell (1997)
- Dimitri Tiomkin (1999) – musica da film
- Franz Waxman (1999)
- Meredith Willson (1999) – film, fra cui Il Grande Dittatore di Chaplin