Glenn Stafford
Glenn Stafford is a Senior Composer for Blizzard Entertainment.[1] Derek Duke, Jason Hayes and him were the original music team for StarCraft.[2]
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Biography
Growing up, Stafford studied classical music, from which he gets a lot of his inspiration.[3] Stafford's background lies in contemporary and progressive rock.[4] He was initially hired by Blizzard on a one-week trial basis. He spent that first week stationed in Mike Morhaime's office, porting music and sound effects for the PC version of The Lost Vikings.[5] He later created the music for various games in the Warcraft franchise, including Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness and Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal,[6] Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne and World of Warcraft as well as several of its expansion packs.
Composed music
StarCraft
Warcraft II
Warcraft III
Wrath of the Lich King
- Storm Peaks[9]
- Patch 3.1 - (see also Derek Duke and Russell Brower)
Cataclysm
- Arathi Highlands
- Western Plaguelands (Cataclysm)
[30-35] Words and Music By...
Pandaria
- Pet Battles
- Patch 5.2 - (see also Jason Hayes and Russell Brower)
- Patch 5.3 - (see also Jason Hayes)
- Patch 5.4 - (see also Derek Duke, Edo Guidotti, Jason Hayes, Jeremy Soule, Neal Acree, Russell Brower and Sam Cardon)
Legion
- Highmountain
- Patch 7.3 - (see also Clint Bajakian, Neal Acree, Russell Brower and Sam Cardon)
- Seat of the Pantheon - (see also Adam Burgess)
- Patch 7.3.5 - (see also Clint Bajakian, Derek Duke, Leo Kaliski, Neal Acree and Russell Brower)
Battle for Azeroth
- Alliance Victory - (see also Jason Hayes and Leo Kaliski)
- Before the Storm - (see also Clint Bajakian, David Arkenstone, Jason Hayes, Leo Kaliski, Neal Acree and Sam Cardon)
- Classic Battle - (see also Jason Hayes and Leo Kaliski)
- Dark Iron dwarf
- Divebar - (see also Leo Kaliski and Sam Cardon)
- Drustvar
- Freehold
- Freehold Combat - (see also Kory McMaster)
- Glenbrook Woods
- Heart of Sethraliss - (see also Kory McMaster)
- Horde Victory - (see also Adam Burgess, Clint Bajakian and Leo Kaliski)
- Island expedition - (see also Leo Kaliski)
- Naga Incursion
- Outlaw Harbor
- RTC (Real Time Cutscenes) - (see also Adam Burgess, Clint Bajakian, David Arkenstone, Derek Duke, Jason Hayes, Leo Kaliski, Neal Acree, Russell Brower and Sam Cardon)
- Sethrak
- Siren's Song
- Waycrest Manor
- Waycrest Wedding - (see also Leo Kaliski)
- Windrunner - (see also Sam Cardon)
- Patch 8.1 - (see also Adam Burgess, Jason Hayes, Leo Kaliski and Sam Cardon)
Voice acting
References
- ^ Blizzard on Social Media. Blizzard Entertainment. Retrieved on 2014-05-20.
- ^ Glenn Stafford on Twitter
- ^ Glenn Staffor on Twitter
- ^ 2017-05-12, The Sounds of Koprulu. Blizzard Entertainment, retrieved on 2017-05-13
- ^ 2017-04-27, Rock and Roll Days of StarCraft: a Development Retrospective. Blizzard Entertainment, retrieved on 2017-04-29
- ^ Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition manual
- ^ Glenn Stafford on Twitter
- ^ Glenn Stafford on Twitter
- ^ Glenn Stafford on Twitter
- ^ BlizzConline 2021 - World of Warcraft: Making of the Wandering Ancient Mount
