the Soviet Union at the time. In 1981 Lokshin had passed the score of Mater Dolorosa abroad to Rudolf Barshai. However, it was impossible for Barshai to perform this composition in the West in view of the unpredictable consequences this could have had for Lokshin. Barshai's performance of Lokshin’s Requiem at the closing of the IV International conference "Resistance in the Gulag" (Moscow, 29 May 2002) was the first essential step on the way to Lokshin's posthumous rehabilitation. According to Lokshin's son, the composer was the victim of a calumny, and the real source of the charge that Lokshin was an informer was not the former Gulag prisoners, but Stalin’s secret police themselves, who had employed a practice of deceiving its victims by redirecting their suspicions. Lokshin's son claimed that the aim of these efforts was to defend an active agent of the secret police. The arguments and documents obtained by Lokshin's son persuaded Yelena Bonner to stand up for Lokshin. On 8 January 2009 Bonner wrote: "From a certain point I have no more relation to the museum [i.e. the Sakharov Center] … since I did not find Aleksandr Lokshin's’s [i.e.the composer's son] address [I ask] to let him know that I asked a member of the Public Commission to ask the director of the museum to take away from the site the material mentioned by Aleksandr Lokshin. And more than that – I am always on my guard when I consider all the supposedly unmasking materials. And in the most part of the cases I do not trust them." It is also impossible to ignore the historical fact that Lokshin's Requiem was performed at the closing of the IV Conference "Resistance in the Gulag" (2002). Works, editions and recordings Fifth Symphony – two of Shakespeare's sonnets for baritone, string orchestra, and harp Ninth Symphony – five poems of Leonid Martynov (1905–1980) for baritone and string orchestra Eleventh Symphony – a sonnet by Luís de Camões for soprano and orchestra List of compositions [1939] Les Fleurs du Mal, symphonic poem to verses by Charles Baudelaire. For soprano and BSO. 25 min. [1942] Wait for Me, symphonic poem to verses by K. Simonov. For mezzo-soprano and BSO. 15 min. [1947] Childish Suite for two pianos. 19 min. [1952] Hungarian Fantasia for violin and BSO. 15 min. [1952] Author’s transcription of the Hungarian Fantasia for violin and piano. 15 min. [1953]