This article examines performance and reception of music sacred tradition in the Soviet Union 1970s-80s, with focus on two works composed genre Catholic Requiem Mass, Alfred Schnittke’s (1975) Vyacheslav Artyomov’s (1988). The recounts history atheism that, as a result state’s failure to eradicate religion, evolved into form secular modernity, outlines culture which Schnittke Artyomov lived. of...