Walter Murphy
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Raised in Manhattan, Murphy entered the Manhattan School of Music in 1970 as a composition major, studying jazz and classical piano under Nicolas Flagello and Ludmila Ulehla and producing an orchestral work that entered the U.S. concert repertoire. After a decade of jingle writing and arranging for television, he achieved worldwide fame in 1976 when his disco adaptation of Beethoven’s Fifth Sympho…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources