Who wrote the Christmas carols?

Question

We hear them every year "We wish you a merry Xmas " "Silent Night" etc but who actually wrote them & how many years have they been going?

Answer 1

Silent Night was written in German, originally. It has been translated into several languages. The German name is Stille Nacht.


There is a story that was written after WWI where the soldiers fighting each other quit on Christmas Eve (or day) when a German soldier sang Stille Nacht. Across the battlefield, it was reported that you could hear Christmas Carols being sung by both the Americans and the Germans.

On December 26, the fighting resumed.

Answer 2

The Christmas Carols that you're most familiar with where written during the time period of the middle of the 18th century. You see while nobody knows for sure when the first Carol's where written there was a time period from 1350-1550 when this was considered a golden in age of carols in England. By the 16th century their popularity faltered until the Carol revival if the mid 18th century alot of them also come from the 1800's.

Silent Night (Silent Nacht)- Was written in 1816 in German by the Austrian priest Joseph Moer. The tune was composed by Franz X Gruber, an oganist and a school teacher. This Christmas Carol was 1st performed at the Church of St.Nicholos in Oberndorf, Austria on Christmas day 1818.

We Three Kings- Written by the Rev. John Henry Hopkins in 1857, he wrote both the lyrics and the music. In 1863 this Christmas Carol was published as he wrote if for the General Theological Seminary in New York for their Christmas pagent.

We Wish You A Merry Christmas- Was a popular 16th century English carol that came from West Country of England. Both the author and composer is unknown as is the exact date of the 1st singining of this carol.

You see this song was performed originally by groups of travelling singers called "waites" and would entertain for food or pay and where extremly popular during Xmas time (back in those days it was a full 12 day feast). The song We Wish You A Merry Christmas is actually about groups of people that would travel from house to house of the wealthy members of the community getting gifts showered on them. Back then this was a very popular way of celebrating Christmas as the song says they wont leave untill they get their figgy pudding. Just imagine today if a group of strangers sourrounded your house demanding food and drink and wouldn't leave untill they got some.

Jingle Bells- Originally titled "One Horse Open Sleigh" was written in 1857 by James Lord Pierpont. Originally this song was meant for a Thanksgiving program at a church in Savannah, Georgia (he was the church organist). The carol was so popular it was sung again on Christmas Day.

For other Carols- Hark the Angels Sing, It Came upon a Midnight Clear and many others check the links below.

Answer 3

they weren't all written by the same person!

Silent Night was written in Germany by the priest Father Josef Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster Franz X. Gruber. It was first sung in 1818 but was actually composed in 1816.

We wish you a merry Chrismtas is a popular secular 16th century English carol from West Country of England.

Jingle Bells, originally One Horse Open Sleigh, is one of the best known and commonly sung secular Christmas songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893) in 1857 or earlier.

Do You Hear What I Hear? is a Christmas song, with words and music written by Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne in 1962. It was originally recorded by Bing Crosby on Capitol Records on November 22, 1963 and released a week and a half later on a then-new Christmas album.

Hark the Herald Angels Sing is a Christmas hymn or carol written by Charles Wesley, the brother of John Wesley. It appeared in Hymns and Sacred Poems in 1739. The original opening line was "Hark! how all the welkin rings"; the version known today is the result of alterations by various hands.

Silver Bells" is a classic Christmas song, composed by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.

Silver Bells was introduced by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell in a motion picture called The Lemon Drop Kid in 1951

The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) is the name of a classic Christmas song, written in 1944 by Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. Mel Torme would eventually record his own version in 1965

O Little Town of Bethlehem Phillips Brooks, an Episcopal priest, was inspired when he was visiting the town of Bethlehem in 1865. Three years later, he wrote the poem for his church and his organist, Lewis Redner, added the music. Redner's tune, simply titled "St. Louis", is the tune used most often for this carol in the United States. Meanwhile, the English tune "Forest Green", adapted by Ralph Vaughan Williams, is the tune most often used for this carol in the United Kingdom and sometimes in the U.S. as well, especially in the Episcopal Church.

O Come All Ye Faithful Adeste Fideles" or "O Come All Ye Faithful" is a Christmas carol which is commonly believed to have been composed by John Francis Wade in approximately 1743. Wade was a Catholic layman and a music teacher, who fled England after the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. He went to the English College, Douai which was a refuge for British Catholics after the abdication of James II in 1688. The words may therefore be attributed to Wade or to others, but certainly originate amongst exiled Jacobite Roman Catholics of the 1740s.

Joy to the world The scripture-based words are by Isaac Watts. The music was adapted and arranged by Lowell Mason from an older melody which was then believed to have originated from Handel; not least because the theme of the refrain (And heaven and nature sing...) appears in the orchestra opening and accompaniment of the recitative Comfort Ye from Handel's Messiah, and the first four notes match the beginning of the choruses Lift up your heads and Glory to God from the same oratorio. However, Handel did not compose the entire tune

Away in a Manger was first published in an 1885 Lutheran Sunday School book by James R. Murray (March 7, 1841 - March 10, 1905), but the author of the first two stanzas is unknown.

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear was written by Edmund Sears (1810-1876), pastor of the Unitarian Church in Wayland, Massachusetts. It appeared on December 29, 1849 in the (Boston, Massachusetts) Christian Register

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

Make the writing very descriptive. Dickens became very descriptive in A Christmas Carol. form of playful observe selection .Have that: no longer something became shifting no longer even a mouse. Memorable characters- Scrooge became memorable for his harshness.

Answer 5

Me

Answer 6

eminem

Answer 7

someone very jolly