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Masashi Hamauzu (濱渦正志; Hamauzu Masashi), born September 20, 1971 in Munich, Germany, is a video game music composer who has worked for Square Enix for nearly a decade.

Hamauzu’s start with the company came by creating a small handful of tracks (along with other composers) for Front Mission: Gun Hazard (1996) and Tobal No. 1 (1996). Later collaborations would include Final Fantasy X (2001) (with Nobuo Uematsu and Junya Nakano) and Musashi: Samurai Legend (2005) (with Junya Nakano, and Takayuki Iwai & Yuki Iwai of Wavelink Zeal).

His solo works include Chocobo’s Mysterious Dungeon (1997), SaGa Frontier 2 (1999), UNLIMITED: SaGa (2002), and Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII (2006). Hamauzu will be returning to the Final Fantasy series, scoring Final Fantasy XIII (Nobuo Uematsu will provide the opening theme).

Hamauzu has also produced arranged albums for a few of his works, including Chocobo’s Mysterious Dungeon ~Coi Vanni Gialli~ and Piano Pieces “SF2” Rhapsody on a Theme of SaGa Frontier 2. He also prepared the piano arrangements for Final Fantasy X Piano Collections and Yasunori Mitsuda’s Sailing to the World Piano Score.

Hamauzu’s works are often reminiscent of Chopin, Ravel, and Debussy compositions, resembling classical and ambient music. His music frequently incorporates deliberate dissonance to provide an artistic and mood-setting effect. After pattern and harmony have set in, the elegance of the dissonance becomes apparent; the listener’s perception of dissonance now evolves into a perception of consonance integral to the music.
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  • viaan

    @FreeCocaine That's odd, since Vielen Dank is a piano arrangement album :O

    yesterday evening

  • DrizzyNayne

    Fighting Fate <3

    last month

  • FreeCocaine

    Vielen Dank is much better than all of his video game soundtracks.

    last month

  • batatshi

    Piano Collections FINAL FANTASY XIII is orgasmic.

    last month

  • EllyDawson

    Good job on the SF2 soundtrack! It's masterful and beats any other RPG soundtrack by far.

    March 2012

  • Neon_Spadezzz

    Besaid Island always makes me smile.

    March 2012

  • novasolis

    FFXIII had such an outstanding soundtrack. So interesting and melodic, and layered with different sounds, even the production is wonderfully done. I feel a lot of people overlooked it because of their criticisms of the game itself though, which is a shame.

    February 2012

  • Phones666

    Isn't Origa on the XIII-2 soundtrack as well?

    February 2012
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