Spiritual-musical heritage by P.G. Chesnokov - representative of the New wave of Russian sacred music
The spiritual-musical literature of the late 19th - early 20th centuries, in comparison with other genres of this epoch, for quite clear reasons, is least studied. Concentration of our musicology exclusively on one part of creative work by P.G. Chesnokov at perfect oblivion of the other part stirs correct understanding of both spiritual, and secular music and, finally, disguises scientific true. Therefore, in the article, we put forward the problem in more details to cover spiritual-musical heritage of Chesnokov.