Morning, Noon, and Night (in Vienna) was the central subject of the 1959 Bugs Bunny cartoon Baton Bunny. Poet and Peasant appears in the Fleischer Studios 1935 Popeye cartoon The Spinach Overture and the Oscar nominated Walter Lantz film of the same title; the overture to Light Cavalry is used in Disney's 1942 Mickey Mouse cartoon Symphony Hour.
Franz von Suppè (April 1819 – May 1895) was an Austrian composer of light operas and other theatre music. He came from the Kingdom of Dalmatia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of Croatia). A composer and conductor of the Romantic period, he is notable for his four dozen operettas. Suppè's parents named him Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo when he was born on 18 April 1819 in Spalato, now Split in Croatia. His father was a civil servant in the service of the Austrian Empire. He spent his childhood in Zadar, where he had his first music lessons and began to compose at an early age. As a boy he had encouragement in music from a local bandmaster and by the Zara cathedral choirmaster. His Missa Dalmatica dates from this early period. As a teenager in Zara, Suppè studied flute and harmony. From 1840 onwards he worked as a composer and conductor for Franz Pokorny, the director of several theatres in Vienna and Pressburg (now Bratislava). Suppè 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 Poet and Peasant (1846) and 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. The descriptive nature of Suppè's overtures has earned them frequent use in numerous animated cartoons
