John Francis Wade (1711 – 1786)

John Francis Wade (1711 – 1786) was an English composer who is credited composing the tune Adeste Fideles. 

A Jacobite, Wade fled to France after the Jacobite rising of 1745 was crushed. As a Catholic layman, he lived with exiled English Catholics in France, where he taught music and worked on church music for private use.

• O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles, Organ & Trumpet Descant, 4 Verses)
  O Come All Ye Faithful : Lyrics – English O come, all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant, O Come ye, O come ye, to Bethlehem. Come and behold Him, Born the King of angels; O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord. God of God, Light of Light, Lo! he ...