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"Silent Night" (German: "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht") is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. [1] It was declared an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2011. [ 2 ]
Together with Joseph Mohr, a Catholic priest who wrote the original German lyrics, Gruber composed the music for the Christmas carol Silent Night. On Christmas Eve of 1818, Mohr, an assistant priest at the Nikolauskirche, showed Gruber a six-stanza poem he had written in 1816. He asked Gruber to set the poem to music.
The Silent Night Chapel (German: 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", its lyricist Joseph Mohr, and its composer Franz Xaver Gruber.
Young is well known for his translation of the famous German Christmas carol Silent Night into English in 1859. His English translation is the most frequently sung English text today. It was translated from three of Joseph Mohr original six verses and first published in a 16-page pamphlet titled Carols For Christmas Tide. [7]
Silent Night (German: Stille Nacht) is a 1995 German-Swiss drama film directed by Dani Levy. It was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival where it won an Honourable Mention. [ 1 ]
He was the director of Baptists at Our Barbecue, The Errand of Angels, One Good Man (2009) (originally called Father in Israel), [4] The Letter Writer (2011), The Reunion (2008), and Silent Night (2012). Vuissa was also the original story creator and the director of the 2002 short drama film Roots and Wings about Mexican immigrants to the ...
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Stille Nacht, düstere Nacht (Silent Night, Dark Night) (2015, by Hendrik Buchna - Christmas Special) Der dreiäugige Totenkopf (The Three-eyed Skull) (2015, by Ivar Leon Menger und John Beckmann - graphic novel) Das Grab der Maya (Grave of the Maya) (2016, by André Marx - with closed pages from the villains' point of view)