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"Silent Night" (German: "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht") is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. [1] It was declared an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2011. [ 2 ]
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 priest at the Nikolauskirche, showed Gruber a six-stanza poem he had written in 1816. He asked Gruber to set the poem to music.
Silent Night, Deadly Night is an American Christmas horror film series, consisting of six films.The first film in the series, Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), originally titled Slay Ride, tells the story of Billy, a young man who experiences a psychotic break and goes on a murder spree dressed as Santa Claus.
On Dec. 20, 1957, the two crooners brought their dulcet tones together for a night of Christmas carols, story swapping, and even a visit to merry old Victorian England. (Rent or buy the 26-minute ...
1959- Bing recorded "The Secret of Christmas" in a studio version after performing the song in the 1959 movie Say One for Me.; June 1964- Crosby re-recorded this track for the album 12 Songs of Christmas, which he released with Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring.
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Young is well known for his translation of the famous German Christmas carol Silent Night into English in 1859. His English translation is the most frequently sung English text today. It was translated from three of Joseph Mohr original six verses and first published in a 16-page pamphlet titled Carols For Christmas Tide. [7]
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