"Silent Night" genre: Christmas
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	Instrumental by Steve W. Smith. On the afternoon of Christmas Eve in 1818, in a tiny village high in the Austrian Alps, Joseph Mohr, the local Catholic priest, wrote some appropriate stanzas for the season.
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	Story Behind the Song English words adapted from the German of Joseph Mohr. Music by Franz Gruber. Copyright (C) 1981 Ardee Music Publishing, Inc. This arrangement by Steve W. Smith ASCAP copyright (C) 2002 by Sted Records Music. About This Song: On the afternoon of Christmas Eve in 1818, in a tiny village high in the Austrian Alps, Joseph Mohr, the local Catholic priest, wrote some appropriate stanzas for the season. The church pipe organ had given out and could not be repaired in time for that evening, so the church organist, Franz Gruber, wrote a simple tune, setting the words for a tenor, a bass and two guitars. That very evening, at the midnight service, "Silent Night" was heard for the first time. The song soon made its way beyond the town of Oberdorf, but anonymously, without mention of composer or poet. Until the 1850's, neither Gruber nor Mohr, living in their remote village, knew that their song was rapidly becoming the most beloved piece of Christmas music ever written - nor did the world know of Gruber and Mohr.

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