Le chant est écrit pour célébrer la restauration de l’orgue de la collégiale, en 1843. Lorsqu’est décidé, en mars 1843, la restauration de l’orgue se trouvant dans la collégiale Saint-Jean Baptiste, ...
It was Advent 1843, and the French village of Roquemaure was preparing to celebrate both the season and the restoration of the church’s pipe organ. The parish priest asked a local wine distributer who ...
In the fall of 1847, a French wine merchant, Placide Cappeau, was asked by his local priest to write a Christmas poem. Not long after, Placide Cappeau showed this poem, “Minuit, chrétiens,” to the ...
It was Advent 1843, and the French village of Roquemaure was preparing to celebrate both the season and the restoration of the church’s pipe organ. The parish priest asked a local wine distributer who ...
One of the beautiful carols of Christmas, “O Holy Night,” was first performed at a Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve in 1847, in Roquemaure, France. The lyrics were the work of Placide Cappeau, a wine ...
It’s a notorious fact that O Holy Night, the most reverent of Christmas hymns, was created by a man of little piety, who ultimately preferred socialism to Christianity. Or at least that was true of ...
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