SILENT NIGHT - A MOST FAVORITE CHRISTMAS HYMN FOR GENERATIONS скачать в хорошем качестве

SILENT NIGHT - A MOST FAVORITE CHRISTMAS HYMN FOR GENERATIONS

Now playing in channel Stardustpiano / YouTube, "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. In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, he had written the poem "Stille Nacht" in 1816 at Mariapfarr, the hometown of his father in the Salzburg Lungau region, where Joseph had worked as an assistant priest. The melody was composed by Franz Xaver Gruber, schoolmaster and organist in the nearby village of Arnsdorf, now part of Lamprechtshausen. On Christmas Eve, 1818, Mohr brought the words to Gruber and asked him to compose a melody and guitar accompaniment for that night's mass, after river flooding had possibly damaged the church organ. The church was eventually destroyed by repeated flooding and replaced with the Silent-Night-Chapel. 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. From there, two travelling families of folk singers, the Strassers and the Rainers, included the tune in their shows. The Rainers were already singing it around Christmas 1819, and they once performed it for an audience that included Franz I of Austria and Alexander I of Russia, as well as making the first performance of the song in the U.S., in New York City in 1839. By the 1840's the song was well known in Lower Saxony and was reported to be a favourite of Frederick William IV of Prussia. During this period, the melody changed slightly to become the version that is commonly played today. i'm wishing you a Blessed Christmas to you and yours. Merry Christmas ! LYRICS Silent night Holy night All is calm, all is bright Round yon Virgin Mother and Child Holy Infant, So, tender and mild Sleep, in heavenly peace Sleep, in heavenly peace Silent night Holy night Shepherds quake at the sight Glories stream from Heaven afar Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia Christ the Saviour is born Christ the Saviour is born Silent night Holy night Son of God love's pure light Radiant beams from Thy holy face With the dawn of redeeming grace Jesus Lord at Thy birth Jesus Lord at Thy birth