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| Composer : | Gruber, Franz Xaver (1787 - 1863) | ||||
| Instrumentation : | String Quartet4 other versions | ||||
| Style : | Christmas - Carols | ||||
| Arranger : Publisher : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||||
| Date : | 1818 | ||||
| Copyright : | Public Domain | ||||
| Added by magataganm, 17 Dec 2017 Franz Xaver Gruber (25 November 1787 – 7 June 1863), was an Austrian primary school teacher and church organist in the village of Arnsdorf. At the same time he was organist and choirmaster at St Nicholas Church in the neighboring village of Oberndorf bei Salzburg and then in later years moved on to Hallein, Salzburg. 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 pastor at St Nicholas, showed Gruber a six-stanza poem he had written in 1816. He asked Gruber to set the poem to music. The church organ had broken down so Gruber produced a melody with guitar arrangement for the poem. 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. Although this carol was originally created for Chorus (SATB), I created this arrangement for String Quartet (2 Violins, Viola & Cello). Sheet central : | Douce nuit, Sainte nuit (Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht) (342 sheet music) | | |||
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