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In episode 8 of _Yuri!!! on Ice_ , Emil Nekola skates his short program to a
piano piece. (This is around the eight-minute mark in the episode.) The music
sounded like a classical work that I have heard before, but I was unable to
place it. The most I have been able to gather is that if this is indeed a
classical composition, it would have to be from the Romantic period in music
at the earliest. (I also have a sense of which composers _wouldn't_ have
written something like this, but that's less useful.)

Is the music in Emil's short program an original composition? If not, what is
its title and composer?


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What piano piece is Emil Nekola skating to in his short program?


I found an answer after some additional guesswork and checking with some music
recordings.

The piano music is an excerpt from Modest Mussorgsky's [_Pictures at an
Exhibition_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_at_an_Exhibition),
specifically ["The Hut on Hen's
Legs"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCELgdIadqs) section. The soundtrack
before the episode cuts away to the end of Emil's performance clearly matches
this; the piano music starts where this section of _Pictures at an Exhibition_
begins and follows it (before the cut) without any alterations.


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