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William "Bill" Benjamin Lava (March 18, 1911 – February 20, 1971) was a composer and arranger who composed and conducted music for feature films as well as that for the Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated cartoons from 1962 to 1969, replacing the deceased Milt Franklyn, making him the last composer and arranger in the classic era of Warner Bros. Cartoons.
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William "Bill" B. Lava (March 18, 1911 St. Paul, Minnesota - February 20, 1971 Los Angeles, California) was a musical composer and arranger who worked on the Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated cartoons from 1962 onwards, replacing the deceased Milt Franklyn. Lava's music was very different from that of Franklyn and previous composer Carl Stalling. It has a tendency towards atonality. A sense of tension is often created in Lava's scores using sequences based on the notes of t
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- Given name
- William
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Saint Paul
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- film score composer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- film score
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- Composer William Lava Headshot.jpg
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- Category:Films scored by William Lava
- date of birth
- 1911-03-18
- date of death
- 1971-02-20
- start of work period
- 1936-00-00
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- William Lava
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