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This well-known Christmas carol reflects on the birth of the Lord Jesus and of mankind's redemption.
It was originally written as a French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" (Midnight, Christians) by Placide Cappeau (1808–1877), a wine merchant and poet, who had been asked by a parish priest
to write a Christmas poem.
It was translated by the Unitarian minister John Sullivan Dwight, editor of Dwight's Journal of Music, who created a singing edition based on Cappeau's French text in 1855.
The music was composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847.
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