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Words : Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht!, Rev. Joseph Mohr (1792-1848), 1816. Mohr was a Catholic priest.
Translation from German to English : Bishop John Freeman Young (1820-1885).
Music : Stille Nacht, Franz Xaver Gruber (November 25, 1787 to June 7, 1863), ca 1818.
Franz Xaver Gruber was an Austrian primary school teacher, church organist and composer of the 19th century.
Mohr and Gruber first performed Silent Night on December 24, 1818, at Christmas Mass in St. Nicholas Church in Austria, with guitar accompaniment, and with the St. Nicholas choir repeating the last two lines of each verse.
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