The composer showed himself in this more artistic than in anything else he did.

It should have been heard at the Odeon with another piece written by Jules Barbier on the same subject.

The overture used to appear in the concerts as did the polonnaise, but like the overture to _Guillaume Tell_, they have disappeared.

These overtures are not negligible.

The overture to _Guillaume Tell_ is notable for the unusual invention of the five violoncellos and its storm with its original beginning, to say nothing of its pretty pastoral.