Franz von Suppé composed about 30 operettas and 180 farces, ballets, and other stage works. Although the bulk of Suppé's operas have sunk into relative obscurity, the overtures - particularly 'Dichter und Bauer' (Poet and Peasant, 1846) and 'Leichte Kavallerie' (Light Cavalry, 1866) - have survived and some of them have been used in all sorts of soundtracks for movies, cartoons, advertisements and so on.