505K views · 39K reactions |  Gallop towards the weekend with Rossini's William Tell Overture! We're sharing this performance as part of the Services For Education City Music Festival! Check out many more performances here  #SFECMF | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Facebook

#JustReleased Gioachino Rossini's Overture to William Tell Gioachino Rossini is among the most gifted and prolific opera composers the world has ever produced. In 1829 when he was thirty-seven years old he completed his grandest and last opera, William Tell (Guillaume Tell). Rossini wanted this to be his masterpiece, and it grew into massive proportions: three long acts lasting over four hours. The overture, both in length and scope, has the feeling of a tone poem. It is in four basic sections:

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