Suppé

[ soo-pey; German zoop-ey ]

noun

1. Franz von [f, r, ahnts f, uh, n], 1819–95, Austrian composer.

Example Sentences

This year’s New Year’s Concert includes works by Carl Michael Ziehrer and Franz von Suppé — and Josef Hellmesberger Jr., who in addition to playing and teaching violin served as the Philharmonic chairman and composed ballets.

From New York Times

“Wegen essen da wird ich erst mal des curry mit kartoffeln haben und dann bologna und dann gefuellte und dann kartoffeln suppe,” he wrote at one point: “For food I want to have curry with potato then bologna and potato soup.”

From New York Times

“Turn that thing off!” growled a very perturbed man somewhere front orchestra left — a highly unexpected addition to the opening horn solo of Franz von Suppé’s 1865 overture to “Die schöne Galathée.”

From Washington Post

Von Suppé’s opera is based on a slightly twisted vision of the Pygmalion myth by Kohl von Kohlenegg.

From Washington Post

Even with these new techniques, which Suppe together calls “slab tectonics,” the mantle’s memory of ocean slabs only stretches back 250 million years—the time it takes for one to fall to the bottom of the mantle and be fully recycled.

From Science Magazine