Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated score, written by Joseph Mohr and titled 'Weynachts Lied' ('Christmas Carol'), is the earliest known surviving copy ...
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. -- Butch Dallmann of Alexandria grew up hearing stories about his great-great-great-grandfather, an Austrian organist and choir master named Franz Gruber. In the small Austrian ...
NEW YORK (AP) — One of the most famous songs of Christmas was celebrated Tuesday as it approaches its 200th anniversary, with a concert at the New York City church where "Silent Night" is believed to ...
On Christmas Eve in 1818, two men with a small guitar entered a church in Oberndorf, Austria, and prepared to sing a new Christmas carol. Times had been bad in Oberndorf, where many people worked on ...
The old Christmas carol “Silent Night” is a staple of most Christmas Eve services. But was it really a “silent” night when our Lord and Savior entered this world? First of all, it was the time of the ...
The Christmas song "Stille Nacht" ("Silent Night") may have put the town of Oberndorf, Austria, on the map, but it's the chapel memorializing the beloved carol that is the town's main attraction. Best ...