Masashi Hamauzu
Masashi Hamauzu ( Japanese 浜 渦 正 志 Hamauzu Masashi ; born September 20, 1971 in Munich ) is a composer for video game soundtracks who worked for Square Enix for almost a decade .
Life
He initially composed songs for Front Mission : Gun Hazard (1996) and Tobal No. 1 (1996), later works were the soundtracks of Final Fantasy X 2001 (together with Nobuo Uematsu and Jun'ya Nakano ), Final Fantasy X-2 2002 (together with Jun'ya Nakano) and Musashi: Samurai Legend (2005) ( with Jun'ya Nakano and Takayuki Iwai & Yuki Iwai from Wavelink Zeal ).
His solo work includes Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon (1997), SaGa Frontier 2 (1999), Unlimited SaGa (2002), and Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII- (2006). In a surprise announcement at the E3 game fair , it was announced that Hamauzu would return to the Final Fantasy series to take part in the work on Final Fantasy XIII .
Hamauzu's works are often reminiscent of pieces by Chopin , Ravel and Debussy , as they contain elements of both classical and ambient . He composes pieces in many different musical genres, which can be seen especially in his soundtrack for UNLIMITED SaGa , which contains various musical forms such as marching music , tango , ambient, instrumental solos and jazz elements .
Works
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- Front Mission: Gun Hazard (1996): Composition
- Tobal No. 1 (1996): Composition
- Final Fantasy VII (1997): Refrain
- Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon (1997): Composition
- SaGa Frontier 2 (1999): Composition
- Final Fantasy X (2001): composition, editing
- Final Fantasy X-2 (2002): Composition with Jun'ya Nakano
- Unlimited SaGa (2002): Composition
- Musashi: Samurai Legend (2005): Composition
- Dirge of Cerberus - Final Fantasy VII (2006): Composition
- Sigma Harmonics (2008): Composition
- Final Fantasy XIII (2010): Composition
- Final Fantasy XIII-2 (2011): Composition with Naoshi Mizuta and Mitsuto Suzuki
- Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (2013): Composition with Naoshi Mizuta and Mitsuto Suzuki
- Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remaster (2013): Arrangement, editing
- The Legend of Legacy (2015): composition, arrangement
- The Alliance Alive HD Remastered (2019): composition, arrangement
- Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020): composition, arrangement with Mitsuto Suzuki and Nobuo Uematsu
Discography
- 1996 - Front Mission Series: Gun Hazard Original Sound Version
- 1996 - Tobal No. 1 original soundtrack
- 1997 - Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon Original Soundtrack
- 1998 - Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon COI VANNI GIALLI
- 1999 - SaGa Frontier II Original Soundtrack
- 1999 - Piano Pieces "SF2" Rhapsody on a Theme of SaGa Frontier 2
- 2001 - Final Fantasy X Original Soundtrack
- 2002 - Piano Collections Final Fantasy X
- 2002 - Final Fantasy X-2 Original Soundtrack
- 2003 - Unlimited: SaGa Original Soundtrack
- 2005 - Musashiden II Blademaster Original Soundtrack
- 2006 - Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII- Original Soundtrack
- 2006 - Sailing to the World Piano Score
- 2006 - Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII - MULTIPLAYER MODE Original Sound Collections
- 2009 - Final Fantasy XIII Original Soundtrack (2009)
- 2011 - Final Fantasy XIII-2 , original soundtrack
- 2013 - Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII , Original Soundtrack
- 2013 - Final Fantasy X / X-2 HD Remastered , Original Soundtrack
- 2013 - Piano Works δ ・ ε ・ T_COMP1 , with Benyamin Nuss ; Mono music
- 2014 - Opus 4 , with Benyamin Nuss, Lisa Schumann and Kana Shirao; Mons Records
- 2015 - Piano Battle Live , with Benyamin Nuss, Hijiri Kuwano and Takahiro Yuuki; Mono music
Web links
- Square Enix Music (Japanese / English)
- Square Enix Music Online Biography of Masashi Hamauzu
- Thank you page on from Square Enix
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Hamauzu, Masashi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 浜 渦 正 志 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th September 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich , Germany |