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Composer
Modest Mussorgsky
ISRC
ATL332609284
Recorded
Abbey Road Studios, 2019
Tempo (BPM)
145

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The full orchestra erupts at 0:02 with explosive, high-energy motifs — dramatic, menacing, and instantly frenzied from the very first note. The music transitions to a mysterious, sparse passage around 1:12 before rebuilding with relentless momentum to an even more massive, bombastic climax. Intense, chaotic, and overwhelmingly powerful throughout.

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition — The Hut on Fowl's Legs is an orchestral piece for full orchestra, brass, staccato strings, woodwinds, and timpani at 145 BPM. Dramatically intense, menacingly chaotic, and urgently bombastic — energy at 9/10 — it is suited to epic movie trailers, action film chase sequences, historical battle scenes, video game boss fight sequences, dramatic sports highlight reels, thriller film climaxes, superhero movie reveals, intense documentary montages, fantasy film magic duels, and any production that demands Mussorgsky's most ferocious orchestral force.

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Is Mussorgsky Baba Yaga (The Hut on Fowl’s Legs) public domain?

Yes — the composition is in the public domain. This recording is not: it is protected in its own right and licensed directly by Artyfile.

The composition
Public domain — Modest Mussorgsky died in 1881, beyond the usual life-plus-70-year term; territory-specific exceptions should be checked. Anyone may perform, arrange or re-record the work itself.
This recording
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