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Title	Stille Nacht
Category	Concert/wind/brass band
Subcategory	Mourning music
Instrumentation	Ha (concert/wind band)
Format	DirStm (Condensed Score and parts)
Publisher's article no.	KL 1011a
Double number/set	Ruhe den Seelen
Price	21.00 EUR (incl. 10 % Austrian VAT)
Composer	Gruber, Franz
Arranger	Stolc, Emil
Difficulty level	2
Sample score	click here
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Programme notes: On the night of 24 December 1818, the famous Christmas carol "Silent Night, Holy Night" was heard for the first time in the chapel of Oberndorf near Salzburg. The Salzburg priest Joseph Mohr wrote the lyrics and the Upper Austrian teacher Franz Xaver Gruber the melody. The story of the song's origins is as simple as it is sad: at that time, the province of Salzburg was stricken by abject poverty, the battles of the Napoleonic War had laid the salt trade to waste. And in Oberndorf there was not even enough money to have the bellows of the organ replaced, which had been eaten away by hungry mice. So Joseph Mohr and Franz Xaver Gruber took up the guitar and sang their self-composed carol "Silent Night, Holy Night" on Christmas Eve. In terms of genre, this is one of the "spiritual folk songs" that increasingly came to the fore alongside the actual church songs in the period after the Enlightenment, combining the intimate religiosity of the text with catchy, folk-like melodies. Soon after it was written - especially by wandering Tyrolean folk singers - it became widespread beyond the realm of Catholic congregational singing in both Christian denominations. Today, almost 200 years later, the folk song is sung in over 170 languages and is one of the best-known songs of all.

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