William Lava
Film score, Film music contributor
1911 – 1971
Who was William Lava?
William "Bill" B. Lava was a composer and arranger who composed and conducted music for many 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.
Lava's music was markedly different from that of Franklyn and previous composer Carl Stalling, with a tendency towards atonality. A sense of tension is often created in Lava's scores using sequences based on the notes of the diminished seventh chord.
Lava also composed the theme to the popular T.V. western series Cheyenne.
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- Born
- Mar 18, 1911
Saint Paul - Also known as
- Bill Lava
- William B. Lava
- Wm. Lava
- William "Bill" B. Lava
- Bill
- William "Bill" Lava
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Feb 20, 1971
Los Angeles
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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