Cappeau showed this poem, “Minuit, chrétiens,” to the famed French composer Adolphe Adam, and within a few days Adam had composed a musical setting for it. Cappeau took the new song back to ...

Not long after, Placide Cappeau showed this poem, “Minuit, chrétiens,” to the famed French composer Adolphe Adam ... dates from 1855. “O Holy Night” is one of the most dramatically ...