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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	1812 Overture	1,211
2	Overture	1,067
3	William Tell Overture	525
4	Egmont (Beethoven)	251
5	Speak to Me	210
6	A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn)	193
7	Hebrides Overture	146
8	Academic Festival Overture	102
9	Wellington's Victory	89
10	Consecration of the House Overture	80
11	Coriolan Overture	67
12	Overtures by Hector Berlioz	61
13	Tragic Overture	60
14	Russian Easter Festival Overture	58
15	The Ruins of Athens	56
16	Festive Overture (Shostakovich)	56
17	The Creatures of Prometheus	51
18	Cuban Overture	46
19	Faust Overture	34
20	Carnival Overture (Dvořák)	30
21	The Hounds of Spring	21
22	Helios Overture	19
23	Cockaigne (In London Town)	18
24	Hamlet (Tchaikovsky)	18
25	Froissart Overture (Elgar)	16
26	The School for Scandal (Barber)	14
27	Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem	12
28	Overture to an Italian Comedy	11
29	Comedy Overture	11
30	Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (Mendelssohn)	11
31	Johannesburg Festival Overture	11
32	King Stephen (Beethoven)	10
33	The Storm (Tchaikovsky)	10
34	Comes Autumn Time	10
35	Tam o' Shanter Overture	10
36	Overture di Ballo	9
37	In Autumn (Grieg)	9
38	Overture to a Picaresque Comedy	8
39	Portsmouth Point (Walton)	8
40	Holiday Overture	8
41	Drysdale Overture	7
42	Aotearoa (overture)	7
43	In Nature's Realm (Dvořák)	7
44	Othello (Dvořák)	7
45	The Land of the Mountain and the Flood	6
46	Santiago de Espada	less than 5 views
47	Tragic Overture (Dvořák)	less than 5 views

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