Not long after, Placide Cappeau showed this poem, “Minuit, chrétiens,” to the famed French composer Adolphe Adam ... music critic John Sullivan Dwight, dates from 1855. “O Holy Night ...

Cappeau showed this poem, “Minuit, chrétiens,” to the famed French composer Adolphe Adam, and within a few ... The American music critic John Sullivan Dwight translated the lyrics of this ...