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OH HOLY NIGHT
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Love to listen, so many great artist on SoundClick, occasionally I will produce a track and share it with my followers Thanks Rodz and Carlo for the fun years
Love to listen, so many great artist on SoundClick, occasionally I will produce a track and share it with my followers.
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Genre
Pop • Christmas/Seasonal
Charts
Peak #42
Peak in subgenre #9
Author
Adolphe Adam
Rights
1847
Uploaded
December 24, 2018
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MP3 2.4 MB • 192 kbps • 1:43
Story behind the song
Placide Cappeau (25 October 1808 – 8 August 1877) was a French poet and the author of the well-known poem, "Minuit, chrétiens" ("O Holy Night") (1847), which was set to music by Adolphe Adam. According to Placide, he wrote the poem "Minuit Chrétien" (O Holy Night) in a stagecoach to Paris, between Mâcon and Dijon. More likely, this famous Christmas carol was written by Cappeau in the usual way. Adolphe Adam called his tune "la Marseillaise religieuse" (The religious Marseillaise), reflecting the republican and anti-clerical (secular), and even somewhat socialist views of Cappeau, which reflect the spirit of the original poem. He died on 8 August 1877 in Roquemaure, at the age of 69. Adolphe Adam composed the music. The song was premiered in Roquemaure in 1847 by the opera singer Emily Laurey. Unitarian minister John Sullivan Dwight, editor of Dwight's Journal of Music, translated the song into English lyrics in 1855
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