Suppé composed about 30 operettas and 180 farces, ballets, and other stage works. Although the bulk of his operettas have sunk into relative obscurity, the overtures – particularly "Dichter und Bauer" ("Poet and Peasant", 1846) and "Leichte Kavallerie" ("Light Cavalry", 1866) – remain popular, many of them having been used in soundtracks for films, cartoons, advertisements, and so on, in addition to being frequently played at symphonic "pops" concerts. Some of the operettas are still regularly performed, notably "Boccaccio", "Die schöne Galathée" and "Fatinitza"; while Peter Branscombe, writing in "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians," characterizes Suppé's song "" as "Austria's second national song".