The Big Foto » cavalry http://thebigfoto.com Life stories in photos Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:47:56 +0000 en hourly 1 Franz von Suppé – Light Cavalry Overture by Karajan http://thebigfoto.com/franz-von-suppe-light-cavalry-overture-by-karajan http://thebigfoto.com/franz-von-suppe-light-cavalry-overture-by-karajan#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 07:23:44 +0000 admin http://thebigfoto.com/?p=1740 Franz von Suppé or Francesco Suppé Demelli (April 18, 1819, Spalato (Split) – May 21, 1895 (aged 76), Vienna) was an Austrian composer of light operas who was born in what is now Croatia during the time his father was working in this outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A composer and conductor of the Romantic period, he is notable for his four dozen operettas.

The most popular piece is Light Cavalry Overture

And due to descriptive nature of Suppe’s overtures they have been is frequently in cartoons. Poet & Peasant appears in the Fleischer Studios 1935 Popeye cartoon, The Spinach Overture.

Poet & Peasant Overture

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