The text explores the historical and conceptual challenges surrounding the notion of Neue Sachlichkeit in music, tracing its origins, transformations, and diverse interpretations across Europe. It outlines how the term, initially coined in the visual arts of Weimar Germany, soon acquired a broader significance that resisted fixed definitions and clear stylistic boundaries. Through a critical reconsideration of its ideological, aesthetic, and geographical scope, the discussion highlights the ambiguity and adaptability of Neue Sachlichkeit, which operated less as a cohesive movement than as a flexible constellation of attitudes toward modernity. The text further examines how its core ideas—objectivity, functionality, and clarity—interacted with local traditions and aesthetic discourses, producing multiple and sometimes conflicting versions of musical modernism. By emphasizing its transnational circulation and capacity for contextual reinterpretation, the analysis presents Neue Sachlichkeit as a dynamic cultural phenomenon that reshaped the relationship between art, society, and technology in interwar Europe.