Silent Night (arr O'Bryant)

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Franz Gruber

Franz Gruber (arr. Fred O'Bryant)


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General Info

Year: 1818/
Duration:
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Voice and Guitar
Publisher: Unknown
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown


Instrumentation

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Errata

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Program Notes

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.

In later years, Gruber composed additional arrangements of the carol for organ and for organ with orchestra, as well as scores of other carols and masses, many of which are still in print and sung today in Austrian churches.

- Program Note from Wikipedia


Media


State Ratings

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Performances

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  • Charlottesville (Va.) Municipal Band (Stephen R. Layman, conductor) – 10 December 2017


Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

  • Silent Night (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Booker) (1818/2015/2020)


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