Sheet music

Original

Tu scendi dalle stelle. Alfonso Maria de' Liguori. A cappella or Basso continuo. Sacred , Carol. Language. Italian. SATB or SAB.

Translation

Tu scendi dalle stelle. Alfonso Maria de 'Liguori. A chapel or Basso continuo. Sacred , Carol. Language. Italian. SATB or SAB.

Original

The poem was published in a 1755 collection of spiritual works by st. Alphonsus under the title Canzoncina a Gesù bambino. It seems that it was composed in 1754 in Nola, near Naples. The melody comes from the oral tradition and it is attributable to st. Alphonsus himself.

Translation

The poem was published in a 1755 collection of spiritual works by st. Alphonsus under the title Canzoncina a Gesù bambino. It seems that it was composed in 1754 in Nola, near Naples. The melody comes from the oral tradition and it is attributable to st. Alphonsus himself.