Yasunori Mitsuda
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Yasunori Mitsuda (光田 康典) is a Japanese video game composer, sound programmer, and musician. He has composed music for or worked on over 35 games, and has contributed to over 15 other albums. He is best known for his compositions for the video games Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Mario Party, Shadow Hearts, Shadow Hearts: Covenant, Xenogears, Xenosaga Episode I, Soma Bringer, Xenoblade, and Inazuma Eleven. He began composing video game music for his own games in high school, and after graduation attended Junior College of Music in Tokyo. In 1992 upon graduation he joined Square (now Square Enix) as a composer after seeing a magazine advertisement in an office he was visiting with his professor.
Despite his job title as a composer, Mitsuda worked as a sound engineer for two years. In 1994, after threatening to quit to Square's vice president, Hironobu Sakaguchi, he was assigned to compose the soundtrack to Chrono Trigger. After the game's success and the music's acclaim, he went on to compose several other games for Square, including Xenogears. In 1998 Mitsuda left Square to work as a freelance composer, founding his own music production studio, Procyon Studio, in 2001 as well as his own record label, Sleigh Bells. The company has since expanded to nine employees, and Mitsuda continues to compose for video games, as well as for anime series and his own independent albums.
He has been called one of, if not the, best video game composer. His work for Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, and Xenogears have been received as some of the best in all of video games.
Gameography
Picture Gallery
Unknown source.
With Hiroku Kikuta, Nobuo Uematsu, and Yoko Shimomura at Symphonic Fantasies Germany, 2009.
With Yoko Shimomura at Kölner Philharmonie, 2012.
With Hitoshi Sakimoto. Unknown source.
Links
- procyon-studio.com - Official.
- mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,40526/ - MobyGames.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasunori_Mitsuda - Wikipedia.
