[2] It is popular as a piece played on sports days in Japan.
[3] In 1938 or 1939, Kabalevsky wrote incidental music for a children's play called The Inventor and the Comedians, by the Soviet writer Mark Daniel.
The play was about the German inventor Johannes Gutenberg and a group of travelling buffoons; it was staged at the Central Children's Theatre in Moscow.
[4] In 1940, Kabalevsky chose ten short numbers from the incidental music and arranged them into a concert suite.
The "Galop" was used as the theme tune for the U.S. panel game show Masquerade Party for many years.