The first instrument on which the carol Silent Night' was played?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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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Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

Originally, it was written for the guitar.
It was a guitar

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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.

Answer 7

violin

Answer 8

Piano.

Answer 9

piano ??