Light Cavalry Overture

Piece of music by Franz von Suppé

Light Cavalry Overture is the overture to Franz von Suppé’s operetta Light Cavalry (German: Leichte Kavallerie), premiered in Vienna in 1866. Although the whole operetta is rarely performed or recorded, the overture is one of Suppé's most popular compositions, and has achieved a life of its own, divorced from the opera of which it originally formed a part.