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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. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] The church was eventually destroyed by repeated flooding and replaced with the Silent-Night-Chapel .
The On-line Guitar Archive (OLGA) was the first Internet library of guitar and bass tablature, or "tabs". Born from a collection of guitarist internet-forum archives, it was a useful resource for musicians of all genres for over a decade.
The New Possibility: John Fahey's Guitar Soli Christmas Album is a 1968 album by American folk musician John Fahey. It is a collection of solo-guitar arrangements of familiar Christmas songs and has been Fahey's best selling recording, remaining in print since it was first released.
The organ was in fine condition but a yearly tradition of sharing a new carol continued. The two men sang Stille Nacht for the first time at Christmas Mass in St Nicholas Church while Mohr played guitar and the choir repeated the last two lines of each verse. For a long time many thought that Silent Night was written by Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven.
David Grisman's Acoustic Christmas is an album by American musician David ... "Silent Night" (Josef Mohr, Franz Xaver ... Mike Marshall – guitar, mandolin ...
Noël is the sixth studio and first Christmas album by Joan Baez, released in November 1966. Working with arranger-conductor Peter Schickele , Baez, for the first time, recorded an album outside the standard guitar-based folk format. She worked with Schickele on her next two albums, both of which also featured classical orchestration.
Silent Night: A Christmas in Rome is a 1998 Christmas live album by Paddy Moloney and The Chieftains. [1] Almost each track features a different female/male guest artist or a group/choir. Artists featured on this album are Maire Brennan , Montserrat Caballe , Sissel Kyrkjebø , Zucchero and Carlos Nunez .
"Silent Night" comes from Austria. The carol was first performed in the Nikolauskirche in Oberndorf on 24 December 1818. Mohr had composed the words much earlier, in 1816, but on Christmas Eve brought them to Gruber and asked him to compose a melody and guitar accompaniment for the church service. [16]