Nobuo Uematsu

Nobuo Uematsu (b. March 21, 1959, in Kouchi City, Japan). Composer of video game music, and one of the most well-known, prolific, and versatile in the field. He has composed music for the Final Fantasy series of games, and some of the pieces in the game Chrono Trigger, by the company Squaresoft. (Among other things, probably. Could use a more thorough list). The styles of his music range from stately classical-esque pieces, to subtle, mysteriously beautiful sorts of music sometimes described as "New-Agey", to hyper-percussive techno-electronica, similar in sound to some music by the band Emerson, Lake and Palmer, one of his stated influences, to the occasional oddball example of some completely different and unexpected category.

He went to the University of Kanagawa.

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