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by Franz Gruber
The story of “Silent Night” is as beautiful as the carol itself. In 1816, Austrian priest Josef Mohr wrote the poem “Stille Nacht” as a reflection on peace in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars. Two years later on Christmas Eve, he brought the poem to local organist Franz Xaver Gruber and asked him to set the poem to music, because his church’s organ had been damaged in a flood and there was no music available for that evening’s mass. Gruber wrote the song that afternoon, and the two debuted it with a guitar that night on Christmas Eve at the parish church of St. Nicholas, creating the classic that we all love today.
by Franz Gruber
The story of “Silent Night” is as beautiful as the carol itself. In 1816, Austrian priest Josef Mohr wrote the poem “Stille Nacht” as a reflection on peace in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars. Two years later on Christmas Eve, he brought the poem to local organist Franz Xaver Gruber and asked him to set the poem to music, because his church’s organ had been damaged in a flood and there was no music available for that evening’s mass. Gruber wrote the song that afternoon, and the two debuted it with a guitar that night on Christmas Eve at the parish church of St. Nicholas, creating the classic that we all love today.