Contents: Establishment and Outsiders: A Preface; Vienna, Metropolis of Music; My Mentor, Heinrich Husmann; The Road to Interdisciplinarity; Humane Music; Reflections about Music’s Depth Dimension; 'Music should not embellish, it should be true' - On the Aesthetics of the Second Viennese School; Personal Friendships with Composers and Conductors; Composers Compared: Wagner and Verdi; Music and Politics: Richard Wagner and Pacifism; European Institutions and Personal Encounters 他