'Silent Night' was originally penned as a poem by an Austrian priest
called Joseph Mohr in 1816. In 1818, on Christmas Eve in 1818, the organ
at St. Nicholas Church in the small alpine village called Oberndorf had
broken. It was at that time, a friend of Joseph Mohr, Franz Xavier
Gruber composed the melody of the poem in mind and it was intended for a
guitar. Since the simple score was finished in time for Midnight Mass,
it was sung there and then and eventually became the most famous
Christmas carol!
