Austrian, but Belgian by descent, Franz von Suppé was born in Split (later to be a part of Yugoslavia). He made his career principally in Vienna as a composer and conductor of operetta.
Operettas
Music from the operettas of Suppé is generally familiar through the overtures to Dichter und Bauer (‘Poet and Peasant’), Die leichte Kavallerie (‘Light Cavalry’), Die schöne Galathée (‘Fair Galatea’) and Ein Morgen, ein Mittag und ein Abend in Wien (‘Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna’).