Placide Clappeau, an elderly wine merchant and mayor of Roquemaure in France, who wrote poems for his own enjoyment, wrote the words to O Holy Night in 1847. The music is the work of Adolphe Adam, a Parisian composer.
This Christmas carol was made famous by the baritone Faure. It could be heard as far away as Louisiana at the Midnight Mass celebrated in the Cathedral of Saint Louis in New Orleans where Acadians and Creoles of French ancestry gathered together.
