# 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.

*American composer*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Singer / Musician ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220))
- **Category:** Musicians
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1952-12-19
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 50.6 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 15.7 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0614774/ (@nm0614774)

## Sources
- [Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/artist/5017)
- [والتر ميرفي (موسيقي)](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%82%D9%8A))
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- [والتر مورفی](https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%81%DB%8C)
- [Walter Murphy](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murphy)
- [Walter Murphy](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murphy)
- [Walter Murphy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murphy)
- [Walter Murphy](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murphy)
- [والتر مورفی](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%81%DB%8C)
- [Walter Murphy](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murphy)
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- [Walter Murphy](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murphy)
- [Walter Murphy](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murphy)
- [Мёрфи, Уолтер (композитор)](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%91%D1%80%D1%84%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A3%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80_(%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80))
- [Walter Murphy](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murphy)
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- [والٹر مرفی](https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%B9%D8%B1_%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%81%DB%8C)
- [MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c48af196-bab1-4505-9256-0922adac0fe2)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q534419)
- [Walter Murphy](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1071607)

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