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Composer | Adam, Adolphe Charles (1803 - 1856) | ||
Instrumentation | Cello, piano or organ | ||
Sheet central | O Holy Night (Cantique de Noël) (111 sheet music) | ||
Style | Christmas - Carols | ||
Arranger | Dewagtere, Bernard (1958 - ) | ||
Date | 1847 | ||
Copyright | Copyright © Dewagtere, Bernard | ||
Added by bernard-dewagtere, 12 Nov 2011
"O Holy Night" ("Cantique de Noël") is a well-known
Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the
French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" (Midnight, Christians)
by Placide Cappeau (1808?1877), a wine merchant and
poet, who had been asked by a parish priest to write a
Christmas poem.[1] Unitarian minister John Sullivan
Dwight,[2] editor of Dwight's Journal of Music, created
a singing edition based on Cappeau's French text in
1855. In both the French original and in the two
familiar English ve...(+)
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