This week, learn the full story behind Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell" Overture. Plus, we'll hear two towering musical expressions of nature with Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 1 and Richard ...

William Tell may not be Gioachino Rossini's most famous opera, but it does have at least two tunes that rank among the most familiar music ever composed. Plenty of operas can boast of a single melody ...

You'd know it if you heard it: the spirited, rousing overture to Gioachino Rossini's final opera, "William Tell." It served as the theme music for "The Lone Ranger," and it appears so frequently in ...

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A: The original copyright for “William Tell Overture,” which first passionately rang out in the 1829 opera “William Tell,” has long since expired. The famous tune is now part of the public domain — ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Gioachino Rossini's opera "Guillaume Tell" (William Tell) about the Swiss patriot who shoots an arrow that splits an apple atop his son's head is famed for its overture with the ...

William Tell is an 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 William Tell, which, in ...