Franz von Suppé: Operetta – Famous Overtures – Otmar Suitner & Staatskapelle Dresden:
1.Leichte Kavallerie (Light Cavalry) – 0:00
2.Dichter und Bauer (Poet and Peasant) – 07:08
3.Banditenstreiche (Jolly Robbers) – 16:19
Franz von Suppé or Francesco Suppé Demelli (18 April 1819 – 21 May 1895) was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music. He came from the Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of Croatia). He was a composer and conductor of the Romantic period.
Suppé composed about 30 operettas and 180 farces, ballets, and other stage works. Although the bulk of his operettas have sunk into relative obscurity, the overtures – particularly Dichter und Bauer (Poet and Peasant, 1846) and Leichte Kavallerie (Light Cavalry, 1866) – remain popular, many of them having been used in soundtracks for films, cartoons, advertisements, and so on, in addition to being frequently played at symphonic “pops” concerts.