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  • Silent Night, original version.

    12/24/2022 4:18:27 PM PST · by crz · 7 replies
    The original version...Austria.
  • Silent Night

    12/25/2020 5:59:35 AM PST · by Twotone · 3 replies
    Steyn On-line ^ | December 24, 2020 | Mark Steyn
    By popular demand we are rebroadcasting a Steyn program first aired two years ago: In this special audio edition of Steyn's Song of the Week Mark celebrates the bicentennial of a beloved Christmas song first performed exactly two centuries ago - Christmas Eve 1818 - in a small church in Oberndorf, Austria - "Stille Nacht", or "Silent Night". For these birthday observances, Steyn welcomes the man who knows more about "Silent Night" and the men who created it than anybody on the planet - the Austrian actor and producer Hanno Schilf, who tells the story of the song, and the...
  • The Origin of Silent Night - A Christmas Carol is Born

    12/20/2005 4:15:24 PM PST · by Aussie Dasher · 16 replies · 1,259+ views
    LifeSiteNews ^ | 21 December 2005 | Fr. Bernard Heffernan
    For 22 years I looked after the spiritual needs of senior citizen homes. Volunteers helped. Among them was Anna Cairnduf, a lady who hails from a mountain town in Austria. She's the grand niece of Father Joseph Mohr, the writer of the Christmas carol "Silent Night" which for a long time was ignored. Why? Great music is expected from great cities and great Cathedrals but hardly from a poor, cold, drafty little mountain church, where a few days before Christmas in 1818, a hungry mouse chewed through the bellows of the old organ, silencing it. Oh no! No music for...