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服部克久


Katsuhisa Hattori (服部 克久, born November 1, 1936) is a Japanese classical composer who also writes music for anime movies, TV series and OVAs. He is best known for his soundtrack compositions for Argento Soma and Crest of the Stars anime series. Hattori was born in Tokyo, Japan. He is an extremely respected composer in Japan; his style is classical, although he is experienced and respected in many other genres, such as new age, jazz, etc. He is the son of 服部良一 (Ryoichi Hattori) and father of 服部隆之 (Takayuki Hattori), who both are musical composers as well. In 2000 his life and musical works were honored in an hour-long Japanese television special. He has conducted many famous orchestras, but most of his own compositions are performed by the acclaimed Tokyo Pops Orchestra. Besides being a composer, he has been a producer and music supervisor for many years, and now has his own publishing company, Hattori Music Publishing. He is also pianist, judge and a chairman for the Tokyo music festivals. In 1989, Katsuhisa Hattori and his son, Takayuki Hattori, produced the first orchestrated Final Fantasy music CD for critically acclaimed video game music composer Nobuo Uematsu. The CD was performed by the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and entitled Symphonic Suite Final Fantasy. In 1991, again at Nobuo Uematsu's request, he produced three Final Fantasy tracks for the first Orchestral Game Concert CD (tracks 13, 14 and 15) and two for the second Orchestral Game Concert. R...

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