""'Dionysian-Dithyrambs " "'( ) is a collection of nine poems written in the fall of 1888 by Friedrich Nietzsche under the nom de plume of Dionysos.
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Being a winner of the first theatrical contest held in Athens, he was the " exarchon ", or leader, of the dithyrambs performed in and around Attica, especially at the rural Dionysia.
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An old hypothesis is that the word is borrowed from iamb " and " dithyramb ", but H . S . Versnel rejects this etymology and suggests instead a derivation from a cultic exclamation.
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Closely related to the tradition of negative theology, Nietzsche confesses his own oblique form of belief, from his early poem " Dem unbekannten Gott, " to the deep meaning of the " Dionysian Dithyrambs ".
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It is with these extraordinary letters and the poems of the " Dithyrambs of Dionysus " that Kohler, also the author of a full-scale biography of Nietzsche, begins " Nietzsche and Wagner ."
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It can be traced back to Pratinas of Phlius, c . 500 BC . After settling in Athens, he probably adapted the dithyramb, customary in his native home, with its Choerilus, by Aeschylus, and others.
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According to Oskar Becker the " " rhythm of Nietzsche's Dionysian-Dithyrambs was identical to the Will to power and physically in the sense of youth identical to the marching rhythm of the SA " ".
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In the later 5th century BCE, the dithyramb " became a favorite vehicle for the musical experiments of the poets of the'new music'. " This movement included the poets Timotheus of Miletus, Roman takeover of Greece.
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More references to alternative origins and discussion of their likelihood can be found in Pickard-Cambridge's " Tragedy, Comedy, Dithyramb ", and more recently in Rodriguez Noriega Guillen's " Epicarmo di Siracusa : Testimonios y Fragmentos ".
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On 27 July 2010, Rihm's latest opera, " Dionysus ", based on Nietzsche s late cycle of poems " Dionysus-Dithyrambs ", had its world premiere at the Salzburg Festival, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher, and designed by Jonathan Meese.
