While “Silent Night” may have been performed for the first time 200 years ago, Mohr had penned the poem a bit earlier, amid a trying time in Austria’s history at the end of the Napoleonic wars.

The Kroell Family Singers, center, sing "Silent Night" with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Youth Chorus during a celebration of the anniversary of the song at Trinity Church, Tuesday ...

A Brief History of ‘Silent Night’ The classic Christmas tune was first composed as a poem, and it was set to music for the first time in the winter of 1818 Jason Daley - Correspondent ...

It's believed "Silent Night" made its American debut at New York's Trinity Church in 1839. Decades later, the song even made its way to the front lines of World War I.

On Christmas Eve in 1818, two men with a small guitar entered a church in Oberndorf, Austria, ... Since 1818, “Silent Night” has been translated from German into hundreds of languages.

The story behind the Christmas Carol Silent Night that was written over 200 years ago. Homepage. Accessibility links. ... However, nobody knows the true reason why it came to be composed on guitar ...

Holy night!” has become the most widely adopted. Gruber’s music enhances the folk-like qualities of the carol. The melody is set in compound time, that is, with each beat subdivided into three ...

Here, on Christmas Eve in 1818, Father Joseph Mohr first strummed Silent Night on his guitar, accompanied by a melody composed by teacher Franz Xaver Gruber.

Summary: The much-loved carol 'Silent Night' was first performed on Christmas Eve, 1818.Originally it was sung to a simple guitar accompaniment. The carol began life as a poem, written in 1816 by ...