The protagonists of symphonic wind music today face a certain field of tension in terms of content and formal orientation difficulties. Modernists, who see their work in the experimental development of the tradition of the 2nd Viennese School around Schönberg, try to connect wind music to currents of contemporary music and have to experience that the audience accepts their music as little as the listeners of so-called classical concerts are willing to love extreme modernity. Other composers try ...