"Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)" is an instrumental by Brazilian musician Eumir Deodato, from his 1973 album Prelude.

[1][2] It is a heavily jazz-funk styled rendition of the introduction from the 1896 Richard Strauss composition Also sprach Zarathustra.

The "(2001)" mentioned is a reference to the soundtrack for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Released as the album's first single in early 1973, his rendition peaked at number 2 on the U.S.

Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on 31 March 1973 (behind Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly with His Song"), number 3 in Canada,[4] and number 7 on the UK Singles Chart.