William Tell Overture

William Tell was an outlaw who was ordered to shoot an apple off his son's head with an arrow. He successfully hit the apple without harming his son. Later, after escaping jail, he killed Gessler, the dictator who had ordered the apple-shooting stunt as punishment. The William Tell Overture, composed by Gioachino Rossini in the early 1900s, became the theme song for the radio and television show about the Lone Ranger, featuring a masked former Texas Ranger who fought crime with his Native American friend Tonto. Rossini was an Italian composer born in 1792 who is renowned for works like the William Tell Overture and operas like The Barber of Seville.