Silent Night was first played on the guitar.
The story behind 'Silent Night':
Father Joseph Mohr wrote "Silent Night" when he was serving as parish priest at St Nikolas Church in Oberndorf, Germany. Two days before Christmas 1818, the bellows in the church organ were found to be rotted through (some stories suggest rats had eaten through them). Mohr wrote a poem and asked the church organist and choirmaster, Franz-Xaver Gruber, if he could set it to music which the two men could sing, accompanied by Mohr on the guitar. Late on Christmas Eve, the men practised the song for the first time, and performed it for Mass.
Silent Night was originally created to be accompanied by a guitar. Though there are conflicting stories as to why it was written for guitar, as most carols of the time were written for organ.
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The first instrument to play the Christmas Carol 'Silent Night' was the guitar. The carol was specially written after Father Joseph Mohr, parish priest at St Nikolas Church in Oberndorf, Germany., noticed shortly before Christmas Eve that the bellows powering the church organ were either rotted through or had been eaten thrugh by rats. Mohr penned the words that became the carol Silent Night, and requested that his organist and choirmaster, Franz-Xaver Gruber, compose a suitable musical setting which Mohr could play on his guitar.
Originally, it was written for the guitar.
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Silent Night was originally created to be accompanied by a guitar. Though there are conflicting stories as to why it was written for guitar, as most carols of the time were written for organ.
This carol was first played on the guitar by Father Joseph Mohr and accompanied by Franz Xaver Gruber a schoolmaster and organist who wrote the melody.
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It is from Silent Night Christmas Carol.
They probably sang many carols, while in the trenches of World War I. But a popular carol of both sides was 'Silent Night' (Stille Nacht).
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The origin of the Christmas carol we know as Silent Night was a poem that was written in 1816 by an Austrian priest called Joseph Mohr. On Christmas Eve in 1818 in the small alpine village called Oberndorf it is reputed that the organ at St. Nicholas Church had broken. Joseph Mohr gave the poem of Silent Night (Stille Nacht) to his friend Franz Xavier Gruber and the melody for Silent Night was composed with this in mind. The music to Silent Night was therefore intended for a guitar and the simple score was finished in time for Midnight Mass. Silent Night is the most famous Christmas carol of all time! I found the preceding paragraph concerning Silent Night on a web site while looking for the words to the music. As shown above, the music was written for a guitar, and played by Franz Grueber (as spelled in my Hymnal). Otherwise, Oberndorf truly would have had a silent night that Christmas eve in 1818.
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It is from Silent Night Christmas Carol.
The silent version of "A Christmas Carol" is titled "Scrooge." It is a 1935 British film adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic story.
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