The Most Famous
COMPOSERS from Peru
This page contains a list of the greatest Peruvian Composers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,216 Composers, 1 of which were born in Peru. This makes Peru the birth place of the 58th most number of Composers behind South Korea and Malta.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Peruvian Composers of all time. This list of famous Peruvian Composers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Daniel Alomía Robles (1871 - 1942)
With an HPI of 50.07, Daniel Alomía Robles is the most famous Peruvian Composer. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Daniel Alomía Robles (3 January 1871 – 17 July 1942) was a Peruvian composer and ethnomusicologist. He is best known for composing the song "El Cóndor Pasa" in 1913 as part of a zarzuela — a musical play that alternates between spoken and sung parts — of the same name. This song was based on Andean folk songs and is possibly the best known Peruvian song, partly due to the worldwide success that the melody obtained when it was used by Simon & Garfunkel as their music for "El Cóndor Pasa (If I Could)", although that song has different lyrics.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as composers born between 1871 and 1871. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased composers include Daniel Alomía Robles.
