[ad_1]
The most famous Christmas song in the world, "Silent Night! Holy Night!", 200 years old. On Christmas Eve 1818, it was composed in the community of Salzburg Oberndorf in Flachgau and played the same day for the first time, probably after the Christmas Mbad on the nativity scene in the church. Nobody guessed then that the occasional composition would become a worldwide success.
In fact, the genesis of the song is quickly told: the auxiliary priest Josef Mohr had already written the poem two years before, while he was coadjutor of Mariapfarr in Lungau. On December 24, 1818, he introduced him to Franz Xaver Gruber, teacher of the village of Arnsdorf, who obtained an extra in the parish church of St. Nicola, Oberndorf, "asking for a suitable melody for a two-voice choir and a guitar." To write an accompaniment, "wrote Gruber three decades and a half after the creation.
"The latter gave the same evening to this muscular clergyman, according to his desire … his simple composition, which was immediately produced during the holy night with all the applause." Mohr sang the tenor voice and played the guitar, Gruber took over the bbad part, remembers Gruber's son in a letter.
The distribution of the song has already begun in the following years. Carl Mauracher, organ builder at Zillertal, had to repair the Arnsdorf organ in 1819 and build a new organ in Oberndorf in 1825 to bring it back home. And there, they also attracted Strbader, brother and sister, from Laimach (municipality of Hippach), who went shoemaker to various fairs and markets and sang their products singing. In addition, they acted as "Tyrolean national singer". In the winter of 1831/32, they also played the "Silent Night" in Leipzig. This may have belonged to the Saxon publisher August Robert Friese, who published the first edition of the song as one of four "Ochten Tiroler-Lieder". "Silent Night" has become a folk song, composer and poet have not been transmitted.
Through representations of "Tyrolean national singers", including brothers and sisters Rainer de Fügen, and numerous publications in collections of songs and songs, the Salzburger Weihnachtslied has spread mainly in the Protestant regions of Germany, through concerts, emigrants and missionaries, but eventually around the world. The composition, appeared in a few hours, became a worldwide success.
When "Silent Night" also arrived in the Prussian royal house, the Berliner Hofmusikkapelle sent in 1854 a request to the archdiocese of St. Peter of Salzburg, because Johann Michael Haydn (1737-1806, brother Joseph Haydn) is supposed to to be the author having worked in Salzburg. at. The request was addressed to the real composer Franz Xaver Gruber, who then became aware of the supraregional scope of his song, which had in the meantime reached it. He then wrote an "Authentic Reason for the Composition of Christmas Carol" Silent Night! Holy night! "" In which he wrote Genesis. He also added to the answer a score of his original composition, since in the song of D major had become a major and the 6/8-a 3/2-Takt. There had also been changes in the text in the meantime.
Source: APA
Source link
