Placide Cappeau took the new song back to his home town of Roquemaure, where it was first performed at a ... dates from 1855. “O Holy Night” is one of the most dramatically beautiful Christmas ...

In 1855, English composer John Sullivan Dwight wrote the English version with a more distinct melody than the original hymn. Groban's "O Holy Night" currently sits at #96 on Billboard's list of ...

With words written by a French wine commissioner who was not particularly religious and later declared himself to be a socialist, and music composed by a gifted Jewish musician who did not consider ...