Alfonso Maria de' Liguori

Aliases: Alphonsus Liguori; Alphonsus Maria de Liguori; Saint Alphonsus Liguori

Life

Born: 27 September 1696, Naples, Italy

Died: 1 August 1787, Pagani (Sa), Italy

Biography

Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and a theologian, but also a successful lawyer (he was pupil of Giovanni Battista Vico), an excellent painter and a harpsichord virtuoso.

View the Wikipedia article on Alfonso Maria de' Liguori.

List of choral works

• Fermarono i cieli
• Quanno nascette Ninno
• Se Dio veder tu vuoi
• Tu bajas de los cielos
• Tu scendi dalle stelle

 
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External links

• Article from "I.D.I.S. - Istituto per la Dottrina e l'Informazione Sociale", in Italian