Franz von Suppé
Franz von Suppè, born Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo de Suppe, was an Austrian
composer born April 18, 1819, in Spalato, Dalmatia. He began singing in the
cathedral choir of Zadar at age 8 and received early flute instruction from
Kapellmeister Giuseppe Ferrari. At age 16, he composed a mass in F major, which
he later revised and published as Missa Dalmatica (1876). After leaving the
Polytechnisches Institut in Vienna, Suppè studied privately with Ignaz von
Seyfried and was appointed Kapellmeister at the Theater in der Josefstadt in
1840. He established the Viennese operetta gen...
