|
Please DONATE to help with maintenance and upkeep of the Wind Repertory Project!
|
Silent Night (arr Marlatt)
Franz Gruber (arr. David Marlatt)
General Info
Year: 1818 / 2014
Duration: c. 2:40
Difficulty: IV (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Eighth Note Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $20.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II-III-IV-V-VI
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This is considered one of the most serene Christmas carols of all time. The piece was originally written for two voices and guitar because the church organ had broken down. This arrangement is fairly standard in its treatment of both the melody and the harmonies. It is a simple and elegant piece and has been arranged as such.
- Program Note from publisher
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
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Callanwolde Concert Band (Atlanta, Ga.) (Glenn Moore, conductor) – 4 December 2016
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Silent Night (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Booker) (1818/2015/2020)
All Wind Works
- All is Calm (arr. Smith) (2002)
- Fantasia on Silent Night (arr. Bond) (1818/2011)
- Season of Peace (arr. Milford) (2014)
- Silent Night (arr. O'Bryant) (1818)
- Silent Night (arr. Clark) (1818/2001)
- Silent Night (arr. Dawson) (1818/1992)
- Silent Night (arr. Holcombe) (1818/1993/2008)
- Silent Night (arr. Marlatt) (1818/2014)
- Silent Night (arr. Swearingen) (1818/2008)
- Silent Night (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Booker) (1818/2015/2020)
- Silent Night in Gotham (arr. Giroux)
- Stille Nacht (arr. Davis and Longfield) (1818/1987?)
- Stille Nacht (arr. Davis and Vinson) (1818/1985)
- A Winter's Night (arr. Kirby) (1818/2011)