taken from Wikipedia
The Chrono Trigger Original Sound Version is a soundtrack of the music from Chrono Trigger,
a video game released by Square in 1995. The soundtrack was composed by Yasunori Mitsuda and
Nobuo Uematsu, with Noriko Matsueda contributing one track. It was published by NTT Publishing
in Japan on May 20, 1996.
Several versions of the album exist, all of which combine the Chrono Trigger logo and the Japanese text alongside it. The FXCD-016 version features several fx insignias, lacks the text under "Chrono Trigger Original Sound Version" as seen in the cover art screen shot, and lacks the TM letters next to the Chrono Trigger logo.
Chrono Trigger was scored by Yasunori Mitsuda and veteran Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu. A sound programmer at the time, Mitsuda was unhappy with his pay and threatened to leave Square if he could not compose music.[1] Hironobu Sakaguchi suggested he score Chrono Trigger, remarking, "maybe your salary will go up." Mitsuda reflected, "I wanted to create music that wouldn't fit into any established genre...music of an imaginary world. The game's director, Masato Kato, was my close friend, and so I'd always talk with him about the setting and the scene before going into writing."
Mitsuda slept in his studio several nights, and attributed certain songs—such as To Far Away Times—to inspiring dreams. He also suffered a hard drive crash that lost around forty in-progress tracks. After Mitsuda contracted stomach ulcers, Uematsu joined the project to compose ten songs and finish the score. Mitsuda returned to watch the ending with the staff before the game's release, crying upon seeing the finished scene. Mitsuda considers Chrono Trigger a landmark title which helped mature his talent. At the time of the game's release, the number of tracks and sound effects was unprecedented—the soundtrack spanned three discs in its 1995 commercial pressing.
