Refice, Licinio (1883-1954)

Italian composer. His two operas combined religious sentiments with post-verismo Romantic expression and were promoted by the Vatican.

He became professor of church music at the Scuola Pontifica in Rome in 1910 and in 1911 conductor at the church of Santa Maria Maggiore.

Works Opera Cecilia (1934) and Margherita da Cortona (1938).

Church music ; 40 Masses, motets, Requiem, Stabat Mater, and other church music.

Choral two oratorios, three sacred cantatas, three choral symphonies, poems.