The standard English translation, by the American Unitarian minister and music critic John Sullivan Dwight, dates from 1855. “O Holy Night” is one of the most dramatically beautiful Christmas ...

With words written by a French wine commissioner who was not particularly religious and later declared himself to be a socialist, and music composed ... we know as “O Holy Night” was initially ...

The American music critic John Sullivan Dwight translated the lyrics of this carol, one of the most dramatically beautiful Christmas songs ever penned, into English in 1855. In this arrangement by ...