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Dionysian-Dithyrambs
''Dionysian Dithyrambs'' (german: Dionysos-Dithyramben) is a collection of nine poems written in second half of 1888 by Friedrich Nietzsche under the pen name of Dionysos. The first six poems (''Zwischen Raubvögeln, Das Feuerzeichen, Die Sonne sinkt, Letzter Wille, Ruhm und Ewigkeit'' and ''Von der Armut des Reichsten'') were published in the 1891 edition of ''Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Also sprach Zarathustra''. The other three poems (''Klage der Ariadne, Nur Narr! Nur Dichter!'' and ''Unter Töchtern der Wüste'') are compositions drawn from those found in ''Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Also sprach Zarathustra'' only slightly altered. ''Ruhm und Ewigkeit'' was published at the end of the 1908 first edition of ''Ecce Homo (book), Ecce Homo''; however, it is now deemed to be a requisite part of ''Dionysos-Dithyramben''. Musical settings André Casanova included text from ''Dionysos-Dithyramben'' in his Third Symphony, in 1964. Wolfgang Rihm composed an opera, ''Dionysos (opera), Dionysos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Casanova
André Marcel Charles Casanova (12 October 1919 – 7 March 2009) was a French composer. He was an early disciple of René Leibowitz, a teacher and composer who maintained a strict adherence to the dodecaphonic musical theories of Arnold Schoenberg. Casanova later abandoned most of them in favour of a more classical style of composition. His published works, composed between 1944 and 1993, include orchestral, chamber and choral music, operas and songs. Life and career Casanova was born in Paris, and studied law there, while at the same time studying music with Georges Dandelot at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. In 1944 he became the first French pupil of René Leibowitz,Bosseur, Jean-Yve"Casanova, André" ''Grove Music Online'', Oxford University Press, 2001, retrieved 10 May 2018 with whom he studied theory and composition. Leibowitz introduced him to dodecaphonic and serial composition. Together with other Leibowitz pupils, Serge Nigg, Antoine Duhamel and Jean Prodr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |