At the end of the 1970's, under the collective title "Young Avantgarde", the "Neue Zeitschrift f�r Musik" introduced seven composers from the generation which also includes Reinhard Febel. From their opinions it could be deduced that these representatives of the "new tonality" are pursuing a radical break "with the avant-garde value system that extends back to Sch�nberg. They reject not only particular methods of serial and post serial music, but even the concept of a musical avant-garde. Their polemic, against the idea of "material tendency" as well as their renunciation of a materially oriented historical legitimization of their own compositional practice, conforms to this change in musical thinking.