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 ...

Dwight rejigged the lyrics slightly to read, 'Truly he taught us to love one another; his law is love and his gospel is peace. Chains shall he break, for the slave is our brother; and in his name all ...

The same year as the publication of “A Christmas Carol,” Cappeau penned the words to “O Holy Night” in 1843, which, among other themes, includes a few lines about the freedom that Christ’s birth ...

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 ...