Fabian Del Priore

Fabian Del Priore (born 27 May 1978 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is a composer, arranger and sound designer. He started composing on the Commodore C64 home computer, collected synthesizers since he was 14 and took private piano lessons for ten years. Also, he has become an established tracker musician, known as "Rapture".

It was not before the age of 16 until his career as a professional game musician started. After sending a demo tape to Chris Hülsbeck, Fabian became a freelancing composer, arranger and sound designer at Chris' company Synsoniq Records for computer- and video games.

In the same year, still being 16 Fabian experienced his breakthrough as a professional composer. He made music for his first computer game soundtrack which was over 60 Minutes of CD audio- and MIDI Music for Blue Byte's Extreme Assault, a first-person shooter / helicopter action game for PC DOS / Windows platforms. Fabian produced the biggest part of the soundtrack in co-operation with Chris Huelsbeck. Being one of the most well-known computer games 1997 in Europe, it gained positive reviews in printmags, with high music ratings too, which gave Fabian further motivation to pursue his career.

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