OLIVE GROVES (Soprano)
The LONDON ENSEMBLE QUINTET
VON SUPPÉ'S name is best remembered
I in this country by his Overture Poet and Peasant. It is one of the most popular light Overtures in existence, and ono publishing firm alone has arrangements of it for no fewer than fifty-nine different combinations of instruments. In the course of his busy life he composed, according to one authority, 165 light pieces for the stage, as well as bigger and more important works, including two
Grand Operas, a Mass, and a Requiem, and that list takes no account of such early work as another Mass which was performed when he was only fifteen.
A number of his light operas were given in London towards the end of fast century, but it is now almost solely by such shorter pieces as this bright and melodious Overture that we know him.