Summary: The much-loved carol 'Silent Night' was first performed on Christmas Eve, 1818. Originally it was sung to a simple guitar accompaniment. The carol began life as a poem, written in 1816 by ...

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 ... “O Holy Night” is one of the most dramatically ...

Then in 1995, a manuscript surfaced that contained Joseph Mohr’s handwriting and showed he wrote the poem ... Silent Night recorded by Bing Crosby in 1935 sold a whopping 30 million copies ...

In the fall of 1847, a French merchant, Placide Cappeau, was asked by his local priest to write a Christmas poem. Cappeau showed this poem, “Minuit, chrétiens,” to the famed French composer ...