"Silent-Night-Chapel The Silent Night Chapel (Stille-Nacht-Kapelle) is located in the town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg in the Austrian province of Salzburg, and is a monument to the Christmas carol ""Silent Night"" and its librettist, Joseph Mohr and its composer, Franz Xaver Gruber. It stands on the site of the former St Nicholas's Church, where on 24 December 1818 the Christmas carol was performed for the first time. The church of St. Nicholas was damaged several times in the 1890s by flooding of the Salzach - especially by the flood of 1899, which severely impacted the Altach district and destroyed a"
"Still, still, still ""Still, still, still"" is an Austrian Christmas carol and lullaby. In German its first line is ""Still, still, still, weil's Kindlein schlafen will!"" (""Hush, hush, hush, for the little child wants to sleep!"") The melody is a folk tune (authorship unknown) from the State of Salzburg. The tune appeared for the first time in 1865 in a folksong collection of Maria Vinzenz Süß (1802–1868), founder of the Salzburg Museum. The words, which run to six verses in German, describe the peace of the infant Jesus and his mother as the baby is sung to sleep. They have"
"changed slightly over the years but the modern Standard German version remains attributed to Georg Götsch (1895–1956). There are various English translations. Still, still, still ""Still, still, still"" is an Austrian Christmas carol and lullaby. In German its first line is ""Still, still, still, weil's Kindlein schlafen will!"" (""Hush, hush, hush, for the little child wants to sleep!"") The melody is a folk tune (authorship unknown) from the State of Salzburg. The tune appeared for the first time in 1865 in a folksong collection of Maria Vinzenz Süß (1802–1868), founder of the Salzburg Museum. The words, which run to six"
"in Mariapfarr. Poor health forced him to return to Salzburg in the summer of 1817. After a short recuperation he began serving as an assistant priest at St. Nicholas in Oberndorf, where he made the acquaintance of Franz Gruber, schoolteacher in neighbouring Arnsdorf. On a cold Christmas Eve in 1818, Mohr walked the three kilometres from his home in Oberndorf bei Salzburg to visit his friend Franz Xaver Gruber in the neighbouring town of Arnsdorf bei Laufen. Mohr brought with him a poem he had written some two years earlier. He needed a carol for the Christmas Eve midnight Mass"
"a few years, arrangements of the carol appeared in churches in the Salzburg Archdiocese and folk singers from the Ziller Valley were taking the composition on tours around Europe. Mohr, a generous man who donated most of his salary to charity, was moved from place to place, and remained in Oberndorf only until 1819. After Oberndorf he was sent to Kuchl, followed by stays in Golling an der Salzach, Bad Vigaun, Adnet and Anthering. In 1827 he was made pastor of Hintersee, and in 1837 of the Alpine village of Wagrain. Here he created a fund to allow children from"
"Carl Bohm Carl Bohm (also known as Carl Bohm, Henry Cooper [pseudonym] and Karl Bohm) (11 September 1844 – 4 April 1920) was a German pianist and composer. Bohm is regarded as one of the leading German songwriters of the 19th century, and wrote such works as ""Still as the Night"", ""Twilight"", ""May Bells"", ""Enfant Cheri"" and ""The Fountain"". The ""Oxford Companion to Music"" says that Bohm was ""a German composer of great fecundity and the highest salability... He occupied an important position in the musical commonwealth inasmuch as his publisher, N. Simrock, declared that the profits on his compositions"
"Rings"", later renamed ""Hark! the Herald Angels Sing"". Felix Mendelssohn wrote a melody adapted to fit Wesley's words. In Austria in 1818 Mohr and Gruber made a major addition to the genre when they composed ""Silent Night"" for the St. Nicholas Church, Oberndorf. William Sandys' ""Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern"" (1833) contained the first appearance in print of many now-classic English carols, and contributed to the mid-Victorian revival of the festival. Completely secular Christmas seasonal songs emerged in the late 18th century. ""Deck the Halls"" dates from 1784, and the American ""Jingle Bells"" was copyrighted in 1857. In the 19th"
"priest John Freeman Young, then serving at Trinity Church, New York City, wrote and published the English translation that is most frequently sung today, translated from three of Mohr's original six verses. The version of the melody that is generally used today is a slow, meditative lullaby or pastorale, differing slightly (particularly in the final strain) from Gruber's original, which was a ""moderato"" tune in time and siciliana rhythm. Today, the lyrics and melody are in the public domain, although newer translations usually are not. In 1998 the Silent Night Museum (Saltzburg, Austria), commissioned a new English translation by Bettina"
"O Holy Night ""O Holy Night"" () is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem ""Minuit, chrétiens"" (Midnight, Christians) written by wine merchant and poet Placide Cappeau (1808–1877). In both the French original and the English version of the carol, as well as in many other languages, the text reflects on the birth of Jesus and on humanity's redemption. In Roquemaure at the end of 1843, the church organ had recently been renovated. To celebrate the event, the parish priest asked wine merchant and poet Placide Cappeau, a native of the town, to"
"young priest, Father Joseph Mohr, had come to Oberndorf the year before. He had written the lyrics of the song """" in 1816 at Mariapfarr, the hometown of his father in the Salzburg Lungau region, where Joseph had worked as a co-. The melody was composed by Franz Xaver Gruber, schoolmaster and organist in the nearby village of Arnsdorf. Before Christmas Eve, Mohr brought the words to Gruber and asked him to compose a melody and guitar accompaniment for the Christmas Eve mass, after river flooding had damaged the church organ. It is unknown what inspired Mohr to write the"
"Ein Haus voll Glorie schauet ""Ein Haus voll Glorie schauet"" (A house full of glory looks) is a popular German Catholic hymn, frequently sung for the consecration of churches (""Kirchweihe"") and their anniversaries. Text and tune were created by Joseph Mohr in 1875. It was changed for the version in the Catholic hymnal ""Gotteslob"" (GL 478), with stanzas two to five written by Hans W. Marx in 1972. It has inspired musical settings for festive occasions such as the millennium of the Bamberg Cathedral. Born Joseph Hermann Mohr in Siegburg in 1843 the son of a teacher, the hymn writer"
"The words for the final chorale are taken from the German , """", by Martin Luther. Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille, BWV 120 ' (God, You are praised in the stillness), BWV 120.1 (previously '), is a sacred cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the occasion of , the inauguration of a new town council in a church service, probably before 1730, or, alternatively, in 1742. Parts of the cantata appeared in a wedding cantata () and a cantata commemorating the Augsburg Confession in 1730 (). Bach reworked the choral second movement for"
"was a member of the Society of Jesus from 1853, and a priest from 1866. Before his consecration as a priest, he was president of the ""Marianische Kongregation"" and responsible for music (""Musikpräfekt""). He published a hymnal which was succeeded by his hymnal ""Cäcilia"", which appeared in 1936 in the 36th edition. He devoted his life to the singing in church, publishing ""Manuale cantorum"" (Cantors' manual) and the hymnal ""Cantate"", which first contained ""Ein Haus voll Glorie schauet"". The Society of Jesus was persecuted by Bismarck's Jesuits Law (1872). Therefore, Mohr had left Germany when he wrote text and melody"
"Joseph Hermann Mohr Joseph Hermann Mohr (10 January 1834 – 7 February 1892) was a German Catholic priest, a Jesuit, hymn writer, and hymnologist. He was a member of the Society of Jesus. When all its institutions were closed due to the Jesuits Law of 1872, he left Germany. He returned in 1882 and worked as a hymnologist. Mohr published several hymnals, promoting the return of Gregorian chant in Latin to the church liturgy, but writing German hymns intended for events beyond mass, such as processions. He is known for his hymn ""Ein Haus voll Glorie schauet"" which follows models"
"""Silent Night"" performed a cappella by the choir. ""Silent Night"" with music by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr. Silent Night, Holy Night (1976 film) Silent Night, Holy Night is a 1976 Australian animated television special produced by Hanna-Barbera and written by Gene Thompson. During a choir practice two days before Christmas, village organist Franz Gruber is worried to hear unusual sounds from the church organ and suspects the bellows. One of Gruber's sons discovers mice in the pipes of the organ and the mice have chewed up parts of the organ. Without the organ the church choir"
"or the Slovenian-German composer Jacobus Gallus). Georg Wicel, a contemporary of Martin Luther, referred to the carol as ""one of the chief Christmas songs of joy"" in 1550. In addition to its literal English translation, it has also appeared as ""Christ was born on Christmas Day"" in two different translations by John Mason Neale in 1853 (who based his version on the 1582 Swedish song collection ""Piae Cantiones"") and Elizabeth Poston in 1965. In Germany, the melody is used for the traditional song ""Joseph, lieber Joseph mein"", originally sung as a lullaby by the Virgin Mary in a 16th-century mystery"
"chorus repeats how the birth of Christ has raised up the poor and cast down the proud. First verse and chorus: Masters in This Hall ""Masters in This Hall"" (alternative title: ""Nowell, Sing We Clear"") is a Christmas carol with words written around 1860 by the English poet and artist William Morris to an old French dance tune. The carol is moderately popular around the world but has not entered the canon of most popular carols. The French composer Marin Marais composed the tune as a dance for his opera ""Alcyone"" of 1706, with the title ""Marche pour les Matelots""."
"1916 as the fourth of ""Acht geistliche Gesänge"" (Eight Sacred Songs). The German text consists of three short stanzas by an anonymous poet, derived from a religious folk song, that was first printed in 1602 in a Catholic hymnal edited by Nicolaus Beuttner. The topic is a dream of Mary, ""our dear Lady"", of a tree growing under her heart, providing shadow over all land, called Jesus Christ the Saviour. The final stanza says that he is ""our salvation and consolation"", who freed us by his bitter martyrdom. A sermon held in the Thomaskirche where the motet was performed by"
"O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, BWV 118 O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht (O Jesus Christ, light of my life), BWV 118, is a sacred motet composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. It is known to have been performed at a funeral, and was possibly a generic work intended for funerals. When the work was first published in the nineteenth century it was called a cantata, perhaps because it has an instrumental accompaniment. While it is not an a cappella work, modern scholarship accepts it is a motet. This work was written around 1736 or 1737, and so may have"
"edition. In the 19th century, the hymn became the communion hymn in German-speaking countries. In the current German Protestant hymnal, ""Evangelisches Gesangbuch"", the song is EG 218, rendering six stanzas as follows: The melody, in bar form, has been described as joyful and dance-like: ""... the joyful intimacy and wonder expressed by the text. 'Leave the gloom haunts of sadness'; in other words, avoid the funereal tone that sometimes characterizes Reformed observances of the Lord's Supper–this is dance music for a feast!"" Many composers have set it for choir or organ. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a chorale cantata ""Schmücke dich,"
"and dated by researchers as . It states that Mohr wrote the words in 1816 when he was assigned to a pilgrim church in Mariapfarr, Austria, and shows that the music was composed by Gruber in 1818. This is the earliest manuscript that exists and the only one in Mohr's handwriting. The first edition was published by in 1833 in a collection of ""Four Genuine Tyrolean Songs"", with the following musical text: <score vorbis=""1"" lang=""lilypond""> \relative c"" { </score> The contemporary version, as in the choral example below, is: <score vorbis=""1"" lang=""lilypond""> \relative c"" { </score> In 1859, the Episcopal"
"preferred in the Rhineland, a new melody of Christoph Bernhard Verspoell's ""Dir jubeln Engelchöre"", and a new melody of 's ""Heilig bist du, großer Gott"", which appear in the Catholic hymnal. As the Jesuits Law was still in effect, he left the Society of Jesus in order to return to Germany in 1882. He worked as a hymnologist in Cologne, Regensburg, and finally in Munich until his death. The Josef-Mohr-Straße in Siegburg was named for him. Joseph Hermann Mohr Joseph Hermann Mohr (10 January 1834 – 7 February 1892) was a German Catholic priest, a Jesuit, hymn writer, and hymnologist."
"Nacht und Träume Nacht und Träume (Night and Dreams) is a lied for voice and piano by Franz Schubert, from a text by Matthäus von Collin, and published in 1825. In Otto Erich Deutsch's catalogue of Schubert's works, it is D. 827. The song, a meditation on night and dreams, is marked ""Sehr langsam"" (very slowly) and is in the key of B major (with a modulation to the flattened submediant, G major, in the middle). There is a single dynamic indication, ""pianissimo"" (very quietly), which does not change throughout the song. The piano plays broken chords in semiquavers for"
"Silent Night, Holy Night (1976 film) Silent Night, Holy Night is a 1976 Australian animated television special produced by Hanna-Barbera and written by Gene Thompson. During a choir practice two days before Christmas, village organist Franz Gruber is worried to hear unusual sounds from the church organ and suspects the bellows. One of Gruber's sons discovers mice in the pipes of the organ and the mice have chewed up parts of the organ. Without the organ the church choir cannot perform the rehearsed Bach piece because the music was written to be performed with an organ. Accompanied by both his"
"the accompaniment for choir, with the choir singing the words of the original hymn. The German words have been translated into English by H.N. Bate. The carol describes the visit of the Biblical Magi to the Infant Jesus during the Nativity and is also used as an Epiphany anthem. Cornelius wrote the German hymn ""Die Könige"" in 1856 as part of ""Weihnachtslieder"", op 8, for a solo voice and piano; he rewrote it in 1870 for soloist and chorus. The hymn was originally translated in 1916 by W. G. Rothery. The more commonly used translation, including references to the Magi"
"first stanza that night has come as a time to rest in peace, protected and blessed by the Christian God. The second stanza addresses God, praying for keeping away unclean spirits and protection for both body and soul by a guardian angel. The third stanza expects joyful rising the next morning, dedication all work and thoughts to God's praise. Reger set the motet for five voices (with divided bass) in B minor in common time, marked ""Ziemlich langsam"" (Rather slowly), mostly in homophony, reminiscent of chorales by Johann Sebastian Bach. All three stanzas are set differently, with subtle dynamic changes"
"well as longing for his comforting spirit. It also abounds with stark contrasts between images of heaven and hell, often within a single section. The chorale melody was composed by Johann Crüger (1653), and it first appeared in his hymnal ""Praxis pietatis melica"". The six hymn stanzas form the uneven movement numbers, while the words of the even numbers from two to ten taken from the Epistle to the Romans 8:1–2, 9–11. The scriptures here speak of Jesus Christ freeing man from sin and death. Bach's vivid setting of the words heightens these dramatic contrasts resulting in a motet with"
"text has inspired a number of modern composers, and is usually titled ""The Virgin's Cradle Hymn"" or ""Dormi, Jesu"". These are mostly choral compositions, although occasionally rendered as art songs (""lieder""). These settings include: The Virgin's Cradle Hymn ""The Virgin's Cradle Hymn"" is a short lullaby text. It was collected while on a tour of Germany by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and published in his ""Sibylline Leaves"" of 1817. According to his own note, Coleridge copied the Latin text from a ""print of the Blessed Virgin in a Catholic village in Germany"", which he later translated into English."
"Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland """" (original: """", English: ""Savior of the nations, come"", literally: Now come, Saviour of the heathen) is a Lutheran chorale of 1524 with words written by Martin Luther, based on by Ambrose, and a melody based on its plainchant. It was printed in the Erfurt ""Enchiridion"" of 1524. The song was the prominent hymn for the first Sunday of Advent for centuries. It was used widely in organ settings by Protestant Baroque composers, most notably Johann Sebastian Bach, who also composed two church cantatas beginning with the hymn. Later settings include works by Max Reger"
"clarinets, horns and strings. Abendlied (Rheinberger) Abendlied (Evening song), Op. 69/3, is a sacred motet by Josef Rheinberger for a six-part mixed choir (SSATTB). It has been regarded as his best-known sacred composition. He wrote the first version in 1855 at the age of 15. The text is a verse from the biblical narration of the Road to Emmaus appearance according to in Martin Luther's German version of the bible: Rheinberger wrote a first version on 9 March 1855, one month before Easter and two weeks before his 16th birthday. At age 24, he revised the motet, for example eliminating"
"as in the score. Notes Sources Notturno (Strauss) ""Notturno"" (translated as Nocturne), Opus 44, Number 1 (TrV 197), is an orchestral song written for low voice which Richard Strauss composed in 1899 based on a poem ""Erscheinung"" (translated as ""Apparition"") by the German poet Richard Dehmel (1863-1920). In performance it takes about 13 minutes. Norman Del Mar described it as “ranking amongst Strauss’s finest as well as more ambitious works”. Strauss wrote two “large songs for low voice and orchestral accompaniment” (German """"): ""Notturno"" being the first and ""Nächtlicher Gang"" the second. Strauss described his two songs in correspondence with"
"by Erich Leinsdorf. In the modern era, the melody has been used by a number of composers, including Hugo Distler who used it as the base for his 1933 oratorio (The Christmas Story). Arnold Schoenberg's ""Weihnachtsmusik"" (1921) for two violins, cello, piano and harmonium is a short fantasy on ""Es ist ein Ros entsprungen"" with ""Stille Nacht"" as a contrapuntal melody. In 1990, Jan Sandström wrote for two a cappella choirs, which incorporates the setting of Praetorius in choir one. Well-known versions of the hymn have been published in various English translations. Theodore Baker's ""Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming"""
"Corpus Christi Carol Corpus Christi Carol is a Middle or Early Modern English hymn (or carol), first found by an apprentice grocer named Richard Hill in a manuscript written around 1504. The original writer of the carol remains anonymous. The earliest surviving record of the piece preserves only the lyrics and is untitled. It has survived in altered form in the folk tradition as the Christmas carol ""Down In Yon Forest"". The structure of the carol is six stanzas, each with rhyming couplets. The tense changes in the fourth stanza from past to present continuous. One hypothesis about the meaning"