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Everyone's heard bits and pieces of the overture to Rossini's opera William Tell! Whether in The Lone Ranger, A Clockwork Orange, or The Princess Diaries, we all know these melodies!
WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE
This concerto was famously used in the 1967 Swedish film, Elvira Madigan, and has even been nicknamed "the Elvira Madigan concerto."
MOZART, PIANO CONCERTO NO. 21 INC
This piece comes from Pietro Mascagni's one-act opera, Cavalleria Rusticana, and appeared in both Raging Bull and The Godfather Part III.
INTERMEZZO FROM CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
Music from Spider-Man is a suite of highlights from Danny Elfman's score to Ithe 2002 Spider-Man adaptation featuring Tobey Maguire.
MUSIC FROM
SPIDER-MAN
Barber's Adagio for Strings is one of the most-used pieces of classical music in film, but it's most famous appearance was in the 1986 film, Platoon.
ADAGIO FOR STRINGS
Music of the original Star Wars trilogy! What more can we say?!