ABSTRACT
Over the last two days, a discussion with two musician friends especially opened my eyes in many ways to the inadequate means for musical expression, in particular concerning the condition of the orchestra today. In fact, even if the ideas of most living composers do not exceed the limits of the possible, and even if our masters scarcely know how to handle the existing materials, it is nevertheless undeniable that:
the imperfections of the individual orchestral instruments as well as the arrangement of the orchestra as a whole hinder imagination and creativity;
the musical intelligence can, and presumably will, demand sounds [Klangwirkung], which are far beyond borders currently stretched to their limits (as such, it is already more than mere speculation that in the future the frontiers of form, harmony, and perhaps even the entire tonal system may be transcended).
