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William Tell Overture Analysis
Taehui Shin
Journal Entry 6 I heard “William Tell Overture” composed by Gioachino Rossini. In order to understand in detail of this music, I need to research a little bit about this music and the composer. In the several websites for music, Gioachino Rossini was Italian composer and he wrote 39 operas and sacred music and chamber music. But his best well known music is “William Tell Overture” which is composed in 1829 and led to the nickname “The Italian Mozart” in 18th classic era. When I listened to this music, I thought that this music represented the changing of weather, because it was fully quiet and calm in the beginning as quiet dawn; only few cellos and double basses were playing and some violins were playing at the end of beginning
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