Billy Joe Shaver - When Fallen Angels Fly

The most important features of B.'s style were already defined in the Fantastic Symphony, the first romantic. a software symphony that has largely remained unsurpassed. "Fantastic Symphony" - a kind of manifesto of the French. romanticism, as well as the novel “Confession of the Son of the Century” by A. Musset or the drama “Hernani” by V. Hugo. For the first time in the history of music B. created a symph. means portrait of G. Berlioz. Excerpt from the dramatic symphony "Romeo and Juliet." Autograph of a young man of his time. The psychological sharpening of this portrait was determined by the choice of the hero of the symphony - the Artist (Artist, Artist - an image typical of romantic art). This hero appeared with B. once again under the name Lelio ("Lelio, or Return to Life", 1831; continuation of the "Fantastic Symphony"). The hero of the Harold symphony in Italy is endowed with feelings of deep melancholy, loneliness.Faust is close to him (Condemnation of Faust), whose image is interpreted by B. in a different way from Goethe's; Faust B. is a “superfluous person” who has not found his place in life as a “romantic hero”. B., by his own admission, gravitated toward the creation of great arts. concepts and "grand compositions".