# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-murphy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:39:44.401Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-murphy"
name: "Walter Murphy"
slug: "walter-murphy"
description: "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."
tagline: "American composer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1952-12-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.66336533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0614774/"
    handle:    "nm0614774"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Walter Murphy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murphy"
    title: "Walter Murphy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murphy"
    title: "Walter Murphy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murphy"
    title: "Walter Murphy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murphy"
    title: "Walter Murphy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murphy"
    title: "Walter Murphy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Murphy"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Walter Murphy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Walter Murphy"
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    title: "والٹر مرفی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump