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Dec 20, 2018 · Published: December 20, 2018 5:57am EST. Few Christmas carols evoke the season of peace and goodwill as readily as Silent Night.
According to Gruber, Karl Mauracher, an organ builder who serviced the instrument at the Oberndorf church, was enamoured of the song, and took the composition home with him to the Zillertal. [7] From there, two travelling families of folk singers, the Strassers and the Rainers, included the tune in their shows.
Dec 12, 2020 · 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.
Originally it was sung to a simple guitar accompaniment. The carol began life as a poem, written in 1816 by Father Joseph Mohr. Two years later, his friend Franz Gruber set the poem to music and...
At that first performance in 1818, Father Joseph Mohr would sing the tenor solo and provide accompaniment on the guitar, while Franz Xaver Gruber, a schoolteacher and the church’s organist, would sing bass, with the choir joining in at the end of each verse.
The toy instruments are used in Act I (No. 5), and Tchaikovsky noted in the score that "These instruments are essentially the same as those used in the first scene of The Queen of Spades.
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Joseph did own a guitar. But a guitar could hardly substitute for the organ on a night like this, with its tradition of elaborate fugues and cantatas. If only there were some melody simple enough for a guitar to carry by itself, with homely words to capture the holiness of this special night.
