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For the political scientist and writer, see Walter F. Murphy.
Walter Murphy (born December 19, 1952) is a pianist, composer, and
arranger who had a massive hit with the instrumental, "A Fifth of
Beethoven," a disco adaptation of some passages of the first movement of
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, in 1976, when disco was at the height of its
popularity.
Murphy was born in 1952, in New York City, New York, and grew up in
Manhattan. He attended the Manhattan School of Music there, where he
studied jazz and classical piano. After finishing school, Murphy served as
an arranger for Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show Band, before becoming a
jingle writer.
In the early 1970s, Murphy became interested in adapting classical music
into disco songs and coming out with hits, after seeing two songs of
different genres based on composer Johann Sebastian Bach's music, "Joy" by
Apollo 100, and "A Lover's Concerto" by the Toy
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