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The William Tell Overture is the overture to the opera William Tell (original French title Guillaume Tell), composed by Gioachino Rossini. William Tell premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini's 39 operas, after which he went into semi-retirement (he continued to compose cantatas, sacred music and secular vocal music).
"William Tell Overture" is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1977. It is a rendition of the last movement ( Allegro molto ) from Gioachino Rossini 's William Tell Overture , played in a deliberately much slower arrangement than Rossini's original piece.
William Tell (French: Guillaume Tell; Italian: Guglielmo Tell) is a French-language opera in four acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and L. F. Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell, which, in turn, drew on the William Tell legend. The opera was Rossini's last, although he ...
Wilhelm Tell (ooppera) Usage on fr.wikipedia.org Guillaume Tell (opéra) Wikipédia:Le Bistro/22 juin 2021; Usage on ga.wikipedia.org William Tell (ceoldráma de chuid Rossini, 1829) Usage on it.wikipedia.org Guglielmo Tell (opera) Usage on ja.wikipedia.org ウィリアム・テル序曲; Usage on mk.wikipedia.org Вилијам Тел (опера)
The Adventures of William Tell – Gioachino Rossini, lyrics were added by Harold Purcell and were sung by David Whitfield. Adventure Time ("Island Song") – Ashley Eriksson; AEW Dynamite ("Jane") – Jefferson Starship; After Henry (Three Quarter Blues") – George Gershwin; Agatha Christie's Poirot – Christopher Gunning
The song was included on the album Spike Jones Is Murdering the Classics in 1971, and it has frequently been included in various "greatest hits" compilations. The recording begins with the "Storm" portion of the overture played frenetically, with the band accompanied by barking dogs and clanging objects of various kinds.
Overture (from French ouverture, lit. "opening") is a music instrumental introduction to a ballet, opera, or oratorio in the 17th century. [1] During the early Romantic era, composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn composed overtures which were independent, self-existing, instrumental, programmatic works that foreshadowed genres such as the symphonic poem.
William Tell Overture by Gioachino Rossini, played by the Portsmouth Sinfonia (opening, 1974). The Portsmouth Sinfonia was an English orchestra founded by a group of students at the Portsmouth School of Art in 1970. [1]