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street singing. In that way, street caroling was bom.
Joseph Mohr, a pastor in Obemdorf, Austria, composed “Stille Nacht,” or “Silent Night,” on Christmas Eve, 1818. Franz Gruber, the local schoolmaster and organist, composed the music the same day, and the hymn was sung for the first time at Midnight Mass that night.
Charles Wesley, brother of John Wesley, wrote “Hark, The Herald Angels Sing!” in 1739. Phillips Brooks, a noted Boston clergyman, wrote “0 Little Town of Bethlehem” in 1868 after visiting Bethlehem.
Though not a carol, Handel’s noble “Messiah” is a Christmas tradition. It first was performed in Dublin in 1742. “Joy to the World,” written in the early 18th century by Isaac Watts, was set to the music of a segment of the “Messiah.” “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night,” written in 1703 by Nahum Tate, was set to music taken from “Siroe,” an opera by Handel.
No one knows who wrote “The First Noel.” It first appeared in print in 1833 in a book called “Christmas Carols Ancient and Modem,” and is believed to be very old.
The author of “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” also is unknown, but he lived before Shakespeare.
So if you should go caroling " this Christmas season, think of other carolers of years gone by, of the people of Charles Dickens’ time i: i their beaver hats and cutaway coats, of English villagers in hose and jerkin, of good St. Francis, and of the priests in the time of the Christian Roman Empire who, before caroling as we know it existed, sang “in celebration of our Lord. ”
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