Silent Night
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Product ID: PH3 AB 9051
By Franz Xaver Gruber
Publisher:
Phoenix
Arranger:
Kenny
Series:
Absolute Beginners
Genre:
Christmas
Line Up:
Flexible Instrumentation
Level: 0-2
Set & Score
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Instrumentation
1 Score
1 Piano
4 Part 1 in C treble clef
2 Part 1 in Bb treble clef
4 Part 2 in C treble clef
4 Part 2 in Bb treble clef
6 Part 3 in C treble clef
4 Part 3 in Bb treble clef
1 Part 3 in Eb treble clef
1 Part 3 in F treble clef
3 Part 4 in C alto clef
2 Part 4 in Bb low treble clef
1 Part 4 in Bb high treble clef
2 Part 4 in Eb treble clef
2 Part 4 in F treble clef
2 Part 5 in C bass clef
2 Part 5 in Bb bass clef
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Composer
Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863)
Franz Xaver Gruber (25 November 1787 – 7 June 1863), was an Austrian primary school teacher and church organist in the village of Arnsdorf. At the same time he was organist and choirmaster at St Nicholas Church in the neighboring village of Oberndorf bei Salzburg and then in later years moved on to Hallein, Salzburg.
Together with Josef Mohr (original German lyrics), a Catholic priest, Gruber composed 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.
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