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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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  • Staxis

    I don't care what shit anyone wants to sling at XIII, his compositions alone made the game worth playing. [2]

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  • Aristoxenous

    Vielen Dank is much better than all of his video game soundtracks. [2]

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  • LilLioness

    I don't care what shit anyone wants to sling at XIII, his compositions alone made the game worth playing.

    last month

  • DrizzyNayne

    Dust to Dust ♥

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  • Meomancer

    The Sunleth Waterscape ♥

    May 2012

  • x_StrawBerri_x

    FFXIII-2 = one of the best OST's ever. So melodic and beautiful!

    May 2012

  • Denysbougalou

    Soon in concert in Paris! http://www.lastfm.fr/event/3292307+IMERUAT+-+Final+Fantasy+XIII

    May 2012

  • viaan

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

    May 2012
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