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ViewsMasashi HamauzuFrom Young Composers Masashi Hamauzu (Hamauzu Masashi, born September 20, 1971 in Munich, Germany) is a Japanese composer. He has worked for Square Enix for nearly a decade as a video game music composer. Hamauzu is also a bass vocalist, having performed in Nobuo Uematsu's piece One Winged Angel from Final Fantasy 7.
Music styleHamauzu's works are often reminiscent of the music of Chopin, Ravel, and Debussy. His music frequently incorporates deliberate consonance and dissonance to provide an artistic and mood-setting effect. After pattern and harmony have set in, the unique elegance of the dissonance becomes apparent; the listener's perception of dissonance now evolves into a perception of consonance integral to the music. Even still, Hamauzu composes music in many different styles, often using multiple styles throughout the various tracks of a soundtrack. This can be easily noticed in his score to the game UNLIMITED SaGa. Here, Hamauzu's compositions break barriers between musical genres, mixing classical marches, tango music, electronic ambiance, instrumental solos, and jazz. Video game worksHamauzu's start with Square Enix came by creating a small handful of tracks (along with other composers) for Front Mission: Gun Hazard and Tobal No. 1. Later collaborations would include Final Fantasy X (with Nobuo Uematsu and Junya Nakano) and Musashi: Samurai Legend (with Junya Nakano, Takayuki Iwai and Yuki Iwai). His solo works include Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon, SaGa Frontier 2, Unlimited SaGa, and Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-. Hamauzu has also produced arranged albums for a few of his works, including Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon ~Coi Vanni Gialli~ (consisting of orchestral arrangements) and Piano Pieces "SF2" Rhapsody on a Theme of SaGa Frontier 2 (a collection of piano pieces and an orchestral rhapsody for piano and orchestra). He also prepared the piano arrangements for Final Fantasy X Piano Collections and Yasunori Mitsuda's Sailing to the World Piano Score. List of Projects
Other worksIn 2007, Hamauzu released a CD consisting of miniatures for piano, piano quartet and various other chamber ensembles. The music on this CD, which goes by the name VIELEN DANK, is very Ravelian in character. Discography
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