For Nietzsche, in The Birth of Tragedy, it is from music that tragedy originates and is truly understood. Paraphrasing Schopenhauer in his idea that music is an affirmation of life, an expression of a primitive and universal desire for life; Nietzsche holds dramatic and musical art to be born from the rudimentary songs in honor of Dionysus. The rite of Dionysus, with his pagan dance, awakens and exacerbates the forces of nature and subjects them to the harmonious power of the stage choir.
Nietzsche argues that during the Greek theatrical performance, the musical singing of the choir is the heart of the tragedy; It is the sum of several individuals fused in a single voice. It is from the chorus that the famous characters in classical tragedy immediately emerge. Tragedy is understood by Nietzsche as the artistic genre that best expresses the two Dionysian and Apollonian instincts. The exposed thesis presents tragedy as arising from the tragic chorus .
