Better known as the
Lone Ranger theme song, this was composed by Gioacchino
Rossini for his six-hour long
opera based on the life and times of
Romantic hero William Tell (incidentally his
final opera.)
The overture is arranged as a tone poem, containing four discrete sections: dawn in the mountains, a thunderstorm, the pastoral countryside and the triumphant return of the Swiss troops.
Also fondly remembered as the in-out music from A Clockwork Orange.