El cóndor pasa

El Condor Pasa is primarily amusicaltheater traditionally classified aszarzuela, from which is extracted the famoussongof the same name.

The music was composed by the Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles and the original lyrics written by Julio de La Paz (Julio Baudouin) in 1913 , but the piece was not published until 1933 .

It was already the most famous Peruvian song in the world when it was presented in Paris by Los Incas in the early 1960s, before being taken over by Marie Laforêt ¹ in 1966. According to the Peruvian newspaper La República , Simon and Garfunkel ² hear a version interpreted in Paris by the group Los Incas presenting their singing as a Peruvian folk lament the xviii ^th century. The duo records a version in 1970 with entirely different lyrics but on the same melody and on the harmonization of Los Incas . Armando Robles Godoy, the son of the composer, sued Simon and Garfunkel for recognition of the copyright of his father, who had officially deposited his composition in the US in 1933. Simon and Garfunkel having no desire to harm him author, the court case “resolved without major problems”, according to Armando Robles Godoy ³ .

Other interpretations resemble the same tune, but the texts are often very varied (eg the Russian singer Valery Leontiev , the singer Esther Ofarim ⁴ or the Israeli band Parvarim , the Italian singer Gigliola Cinquetti ⁵ or the instrumental version of Paul Mauriat ⁶ ). On this subject, there is also an interpretation of the same tune with a text different from Dana Winner, who in Dutch sings Jij in ik (= you & me).

It is estimated that over 4,000 interpretations worldwide and 300 texts.

In Peru , it was declared as belonging to the Cultural Heritage of the Nation in 2004 ⁷ .