Composer:
WADE, J.F. Arranger: NEHLS, U. Arranged/Composed for: Organ/Alto Saxophone Style: Baroque Score and Parts
Adeste fideles is the title of a Christmas carol. The German version is known as “Nun freut euch, ihr Christen“ or „Herbei, o ihr Gläub’gen”, the English version as "O Come All Ye Faithful". The piece was composed around 1743 by John Francis Wade (1711–1786). The first manuscript contained the melody and the Latin text and was published in the Evening Offices of the Church in 1760.
Wade had already published the text in Cantus Diversi in 1751. Frederick Oakeley and Thomas Brooke translated the song into English, this version was first published in Murray’s Hymnal in 1852. The song is sometimes called the Portuguese Chant because it was often sung in the chapel of the Portuguese embassy in London, where Vincent Novello was the organist.
