Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht, H.145 by Franz Xaver Gruber
Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht is the German-language carol known in English as Silent Night. The frozen catalog title carries the designation H.145; the carol itself pairs words by Joseph Mohr with music by Franz Xaver Gruber. The setting was first sung on Christmas Eve in 1818 in the Austrian village of Oberndorf. Its melody is gentle and unhurried, its text plain. The carol is now sung in many languages. The selected catalog item is a community piano arrangement under the title Silent Night. Its keyboard texture belongs to that arrangement rather than to the carol as it was first performed.
About Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht, H.145
Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht is the German-language carol known in English as Silent Night. The frozen catalog title carries the designation H.145; the carol itself pairs words by Joseph Mohr with music by Franz Xaver Gruber.
The setting was first sung on Christmas Eve in 1818 in the Austrian village of Oberndorf. Its melody is gentle and unhurried, its text plain. The carol is now sung in many languages.
The selected catalog item is a community piano arrangement under the title Silent Night. Its keyboard texture belongs to that arrangement rather than to the carol as it was first performed.