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The William Tell Overture is the overture to the opera William Tell (original French title Guillaume Tell), whose music was 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).
Portsmouth Sinfonia. 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] The Sinfonia was generally open to anyone and ended up drawing players who were either people without ...
"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 ...
William Tell. Tell is arrested for not saluting Gessler's hat (mosaic at the Swiss National Museum, Hans Sandreuter, 1901) William Tell ( German: Wilhelm Tell, pronounced [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈtɛl] ⓘ; French: Guillaume Tell; Italian: Guglielmo Tell; Romansh: Guglielm Tell) is a folk hero of Switzerland. According to the legend, Tell was an expert ...
ITV. Release. 15 September 1958. ( 1958-09-15) –. 15 June 1959. ( 1959-06-15) The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment. In the United States, the episodes aired on the syndicated NTA Film Network in 1958–1959.
William Tell Overture (Spike Jones song) Spike Jones and his City Slickers recorded a musical parody that uses themes from Gioachino Rossini 's William Tell Overture along with sound effects and humorous horse race calls performed by Doodles Weaver in the style of the famous announcer Clem McCarthy . Jones released his version as a single in ...
William Tell 's apple-shot as depicted in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia (1554 edition). Shooting an apple off one's child's head, also known as apple-shot (from German Apfelschuss) is a feat of marksmanship with a bow that occurs as a motif in a number of legends in Germanic folklore (and has been connected with non-European folklore).