, sometimes credited professionally as TAPPY, is a Japanese musical composer. He is best known for his contributions to the ''

Metal Gear is a series of techno-thriller stealth games created by Hideo Kojima. Developed and published by Konami, the first game, ''Metal Gear'', was released in 1987 for MSX home computers. The player often takes control of a special forces operativ ...

'' and '' Suikoden'' franchises. Iwase studied music with

Dick Grove Richard Dean Grove (1927 – December 26, 1998) was an American musician, composer, arranger, and educator. He is best known as the founder of the Dick Grove School of Music. Its students include Michael Jackson, Linda Ronstadt, and Barry Manilow ...

at the Grove School of Music prior to its closure in 1991. Iwase is credited with composing all of the music for Metal Gear Solid, with the exception of the ending theme "The Best Is Yet to Come", whereas the music for the cinematic scenes was composed by Gigi Meroni. This includes the well-known main theme to ''Metal Gear Solid'', arrangements of which were subsequently used in '' Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty'' and '' Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater''. The use of his theme song was discontinued from '' Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots'' onward due to allegations that its motifs were plagiarized from a classical piece by Russian composer

Georgy Sviridov Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov (Russian: Гео́ргий Васи́льевич Свири́дов ; 16 December 1915 – 6 January 1998) was a Soviet and Russian neoromantic composer. He is most widely known for his choral music, strongly influ ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Iwase, Tappi Japanese composers Japanese male composers Living people Video game composers Year of birth missing (living people)