Within contemporary composition, Stefan Heucke seeks his own path to combine music-historical traditions with a claim to modernity, creating music that can still be sensually appreciated by the audience. This volume brings together contributions from Andrea Breimann, Nannan Chen, Michael Custodis, Marco Dimitriou, Peter Schuck, and Elena Wotschel, who examine individual works by Heucke as well as his historical and aesthetic musical thinking. Additionally, it documents a panel discussion from 2014 in which Stefan Heucke, Norbert Lammert, and Alfred Wendel, along with Michael Custodis, discussed the relevance and challenges of contemporary music theater.