The William Tell Overture

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Douglas Back-5-string classic banjo, plays the William Tell Overture, Banjo Rally International-2006

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  • Why do people take the william tell overture as an american folksong lol?

    It was composed by an Italian!!!

  • most Americans are more familiar with 1950's TV than they are with Grand Opera. You get the same thig now with the Django Rheinhardt classic, "Belleville" - a lot of people, upon hearing it, say, "Hey, that's the theme from (the video game) Mafia!"

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  • HE'S MY GUITAR TEACHERR! DOUG BACK RULES

  • @SurfCompton And William Tell is a Swiss folk hero.

  • @BP3DP You fail in so many ways. Or was your comment in some ways satirical? The William Tell play was written by Friedrich von Schiller. The opera is part of Gioachino Rossini's works. So, no Wagner here my friend. Wagner died 1883. Founding of the Nazi party was around 1920. So he was an antisemite, not a nazi. A disputeworthy point, but one should focus on his musical impact.

    Italians did not hate Jews? I think, I heard about a guy named Benito Mussolini. He was a baaad guy.

  • I understand that Rossini never met Clayton Moore.

  • @SurfCompton No it was not. Wagner was German. If he was Italian why did he hate so many Jews.. He was a Nazi..

  • ugh....

  • its much more than that!! and its the lone ranger! duh!

  • so, its become an american anthem!!

  • waiting for a response from you ^_^

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