Adam and O Holy Night

Adolphe ____________________ was ____________________ in ____________________ , to Jean - Louis Adam ( ____________________ ? 1848 ) , who was a ____________________ Alsatian ____________________ , as well a ____________________ at the Paris ____________________ . His mother was the ____________________ of a ____________________ . As a child , Adolphe Adam ____________________ to ____________________ music on his own rather than ____________________ music ____________________ and occasionally ____________________ with writer Eugène ____________________ who was also something of a ____________________ in early years . Jean - Louis Adam was a ____________________ and ____________________ but was firmly set ____________________ the idea of his son ____________________ in his ____________________ . Adam was ____________________ , however , and ____________________ and ____________________ ____________________ under the tutelage of his ____________________ friend Ferdinand ____________________ , a popular ____________________ of the ____________________ . When Adam was ____________________ , his father relented , and he was ____________________ to ____________________ at the ____________________ Conservatoire ? but only after he ____________________ that he would learn music ____________________ as an ____________________ , not as a ____________________ . He entered the Paris Conservatoire in ____________________ , where he studied ____________________ and ____________________ under the celebrated ____________________ composer François - Adrien ____________________ . Adam also played the ____________________ in the ____________________ of the Conservatoire ; however , he did not ____________________ the Prix de ____________________ and his father did not ____________________ him to ____________________ a music career , as he won ____________________ prize . By age ____________________ , he was writing ____________________ for Paris ____________________ houses and playing in the orchestra at the Gymnasie ____________________ , where he later became ____________________ master . Like many other French composers , he made a ____________________ largely by playing the ____________________ . In 1825 , he helped ____________________ prepare ____________________ for his ____________________ La dame ____________________ and made a ____________________ ____________________ of the ____________________ . Adam was able to ____________________ through ____________________ with the ____________________ he ____________________ , and he met Eugène ____________________ , with whom he later ____________________ , in ____________________ . By 1830 , he had completed twenty - ____________________ works for the ____________________ . After ____________________ with the ____________________ of the ____________________ , Adam invested his ____________________ and ____________________ heavily to open a ____________________ opera ____________________ in ____________________ : the Théâtre ____________________ ( Opéra - National ) . It opened in ____________________ , but ____________________ because of the ____________________ of ____________________ , leaving Adam with ____________________ ____________________ . His efforts to extricate himself from these ____________________ included a brief turn to ____________________ . From 1849 to his death in ____________________ he taught ____________________ at the Paris ____________________ . O Holy ____________________ remains his best - ____________________ piece , and its performance by Stephen ____________________ and King's ____________________ gives us a wonderful taste of ____________________ . Just as there is something ____________________ about the ____________________ - joy and ____________________ , perhaps - the same ____________________ is there in the ____________________ , in spite of this being ____________________ . But East England has a long history of ____________________ with ____________________ , and ____________________ ____________________ expresses the ____________________ of England in a ____________________ and ____________________ way .