Katsuhisa Hattori

Besides being a composer, he was a producer and music supervisor for many years and had his own publishing company, Hattori Music Publishing. He was also a pianist, judge and chairman for the Tokyo music festivals.

Katsuhisa Hattori studied at Conservatoire de Paris and Seikei Junior & Senior High School. The recorded working language is Japanese. Employment is recorded with Japan Federation of Authors and Composers Associations, Japan Composer's Association and Japan Composers & Arrangers Association. Distinctions recorded are Japan Record Awards.

• Name — Katsuhisa Hattori • Native Name — 服部 克久 • Born — 1 November 1936 • Birthplace — Tokyo, Japan • Died — 11 June 2020 • Place of death — Tokyo, Japan • Education — Conservatoire de Paris • Occupation — * Composer • arranger • Parents — Ryoichi Hattori (father) • Children — Takayuki Hattori • Relatives — Ryoji Hattori (brother) Moné Hattori (granddaughter)

Hattori was born in Tokyo, Japan. 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. In 1989, Katsuhisa Hattori and his son, Takayuki Hattori, who is also a composer, 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. In September 2002, the Tokyo High Court ordered Hattori to pay 9.4 million yen in damages, ruling that there was a strong similarity between his song, "Memorial Tree", and Asei Kobayashi's song "Let's Go To Eternity Together". Asei Kobayashi's music publisher, the Kanai Ongaku Shuppan company, who gave JASRAC (Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers) permission to manage the song "Dokomademo Iko" in 1967, claimed that JASRAC had illegally allowed the use of the sound-alike song. In December 2003, the Tokyo District Court ordered JASRAC to pay 1.8 million yen in damages, for allowing the publishing, broadcast and sale in CD form of Hattori's song. This decision was overturned by the Tokyo High Court in 2005. Hattori died on June 11, 2020, at the age of 83. He became one of eight recipients of the Special Lifetime Achievement Award at the 62nd Japan Record Awards.

• Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1980) • Swiss Family Robinson (1981) • Wanwan Sanjushi (songs by Guido & Maurizio De Angelis) (1981) • Hokuto no Ken (1986) • Ie Naki Ko Remi (1996) • In The Beginning - The Bible Stories (1997) • Infinite Ryvius (1999) • Seikai no Monshō ("Crest of the Stars") (1999) • Seikai no Danshou ("Lost Chapter of the Stars - Birth") (2000) • Seikai no Senki ("Banner of the Stars") (2000) • Argento Soma (2000) • Seikai no Senki II ("Banner of the Stars II") (2001) • Seikai no Senki III ("Banner of the Stars III") (2005)

Katsuhisa Hattori is recorded as having studied at Conservatoire de Paris and Seikei Junior & Senior High School.