Walter Murphy



Walter Anthony Murphy, Jr. (born December 19, 1952) is an American instrumentalist, songwriter, and arranger. He rose to fame with the hit instrumental "A Fifth of Beethoven" , a disco  adaptation of passages from the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven 's Fifth Symphony , in 1976, when disco was at the height of its popularity.

Murphy was the score composer of a few episodes in seasons one and two of Buffy, before replaced by Christophe Beck.