El Condor Pasa (COVER)

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El cóndor pasa is a Peruvian zarzuela (musical play) whose music was composed by Peruvian songwriter Daniel Alomía Robles in 1913 with a script written by Julio de La Paz (pseudonym of the Limenian dramatist Julio Baudouin). This zarzuela is written in prose and consists of one musical play and two acts.

The eponymous piece, El cóndor pasa, performed during the zarzuela's parade scene, has no lyrics. The zarzuela's famous eponymous melody is considered the second national anthem of Peru. It is based on the traditional Andean music of Peru, which was declared an element of National Cultural Heritage in 2004. There are probably more than 400 versions of the piece by artists from around the world, at least 300 of which have lyrics. The piano arrangement of this play's most famous melody was legally registered on May 3, 1933, by the Edward B. Marks Music Corporation with the United States' Library of Congress under the number 9643.

This traditional folk song from Peru became an international hit in the 1970s, with a little help from US folk-rock duo Simon and Garfunkel. Follow the journey of the ever-popular song from its origins in the Andes to worldwide fame.

More than 50 years before ‘El Cóndor Pasa’ stormed the music charts in the form of the newly recorded ‘El Cóndor Pasa (If I Could)’ by Simon and Garfunkel, Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles, its original author, crossed the Andes in search of autochthonous music and traditions. He returned to Lima in the early 1900s and became a fire captain, but the Andean music he heard during his trips – and his previous experience as a music composer – inspired him to create a new melody that would never be forgotten.

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