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Franz von Suppé or Francesco Suppé Demelli (April 18, , Spalato (Split) – May 21, (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.^[1][2] A composer and conductor of the Romantic period, he is notable for his four dozen operettas.

Life and education

Franz von Suppé's parents named him Francesco Ezechiele Ermenegildo Cavaliere Suppé Demelli when he was born on April 18, , in Split, Dalmatia, Austrian Empire.

His Belgian ancestors may have emigrated there in the 18th century.^[3] His father – a man of Italian and Belgian ancestry – was a civil servant in the service of the Austrian Empire, as was his father before him; Suppé's mother, Viennese by birth, came from a Polish and Czech background .^[4] He was a distant relative of Gaetano Donizetti.

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