Cappeau took the new song back to his hometown of Roquemaure, where it was first performed at a midnight mass on Christmas Eve, 1847. The American music critic John Sullivan Dwight translated the ...

Today is Christmas Eve. I look forward to lighting a candle and singing that powerful, familiar old carol, “Silent Night ... What a sacred and holy act it is, to come away from it all ...

Cappeau took the new song back to his hometown of Roquemaure, where it was first performed at a midnight mass on Christmas Eve, 1847. The American music critic John Sullivan Dwight translated the ...