Giacomo Rossini is best known for a series of overtures and the operas that accompanied them. Late in his life he wrote several sets of small-scale pieces collectively known as “Péchés de vieillesse,” or “Sins of Old Age.” These included a variety of playful piano music. Years later Ottorino Respighi orchestrated a number of the latter as the score to the ballet La Boutique Fantasque. Instead of picking out individual sections, here’s the whole thing.
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This turns up with some regularity on my local classical radio station, so over the years I’ve come to be pretty familiar with it.
I always whistle along with whichever section it is that features the military-like trumpet call.
Somewhat relatedly, I also always whistle along when they run the overture to Rossini’s “The Siege of Corinth.”