O Christmas Tree

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The history of the music for this piece is long and complex, and we may never know exactly who wrote it. It may have been used for a 12th Century student song at Oxford! Its first known publication was in 1799 in Melodien zum Mildheimischen Liederbuche (Gotha, Germany). The poem O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum! with which we frequently associate the melody first appeared in Berlin in 1820. The melody also served for a Confederate song, Maryland, My Maryland, written by James Ryder Randall on the night of April 23, 1861. Randall, an English teacher from Baltimore, was living in Pointe-Coupée, Louisiana.
                                Information from Highland Records