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History. " Stille Nacht " was first performed on Christmas Eve 1818 at the Nikolauskirche, the parish church of Oberndorf, a village in the Austrian Empire on the Salzach river in present-day Austria. A young Catholic priest, Father Joseph Mohr, had come to Oberndorf the year before.
The first known performance of “Stille Nacht” in the United States took place near New York City’s Trinity Church. In 1839 the Rainer family singers of Austria included the German version of “Stille Nacht” in their repertoire during an appearance at the Alexander Hamilton Monument near the church, some 24 years before an English ...
has its world premiere on Christmas Eve in the St. Nicholas church of Oberndorf near Salzburg, performed by Franz Xaver Gruber and Joseph Mohr. Silent Night was heard for the first time here in 1818 in former St. Nicholas church in Oberndorf near Salzburg.
Dec 12, 2020 · Its lyrics were written in 1816 by a somewhat loose-living Austrian priest named Joseph Mohr. On Christmas Eve 1818, Mohr – then at St Nicholas in Oberndorf in Salzburg – handed the words to Franz Gruber, the church’s organist, and asked him to write a melody for two voices, accompanied by a guitar, for that same evening.
Dec 14, 2018 · “Silent Night” was first performed 200 years ago in Salzburg, Austria. Read the story behind its 1818 creation and rise to global fame that has some unexpected twists.
Dec 17, 2018 · SMART NEWS. Trending Today. A Brief History of ‘Silent Night’. The classic Christmas tune was first composed as a poem, and it was set to music for the first time in the winter of 1818. Jason...
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Dec 20, 2021 · It was Christmas Eve, 1818, when the now-famous carol was first performed as Stille Nacht Heilige Nacht. Joseph Mohr, the young priest who wrote the lyrics, played the guitar and sang along with Franz Xaver Gruber, the choir director who had written the melody.
