Walter Murphy

Walter Anthony Murphy Jr. is an American composer, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for the instrumental "A Fifth of Beethoven", a disco adaptation of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony which topped the charts in 1976 and was featured on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in 1977. Further classical-disco fusions followed, such as "Flight '76", "Toccata and Funk in 'D' Minor" "Bolero", and "Mostly Mozart", but were not as successful. ^{Walter Murphy, American pianist and composer}

19 December 1952

Born on the same birth day (19 December): Bobby Timmons • Carlo Chiti • Cyril Collard • David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry • Dean Treister • James Booth • Ken Brown (ice hockey) • Lee Myung-bak • Leonid Brezhnev • Lorie Kane • Matthew Waterhouse • Ralph Richardson • Robert B. Sherman • Édith Piaf

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