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Author: Joseph Mohr Appears in 72 hymnals Matching Instances: 72 First Line: Silent night! Holy night! All is dark save the light Lyrics: 1 Silent night! Holy night! All is dark, save the light Yonder, where they sweet vigils keep, O'er the Babe who in silent sleep Rests in heavenly peace, Rests in heavenly peace. 2 Silent night! Peaceful night! Darkness flies, all is light; Shepherds hear the angels sing, "Alleluia! hail the King! Christ the Savior is born, Jesus the Savior is born. 3 Silent night! Holy night! Guiding Star, lend thy light! See the Eastern wise men bring Gifts and homage to our King! Christ the Savior is born, Jesus the Savior is born! 4 Silent night! Holiest night! Wondrous Star, lend thy light! With the angels let us sing Alleluia to our King! Christ the Savior is born, Jesus the Savior is born! Used With Tune: [Silent night! Holy night]

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STILLE NACHT

Meter: 6.6.8.8.6.6 Appears in 631 hymnals Matching Instances: 32 Composer and/or Arranger: Franz Grüber Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 56535 65322 77115 Used With Text: Silent night! holy night!

[Silent night! peaceful night!]

Appears in 27 hymnals Matching Instances: 3 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 34536 53517 6526 Used With Text: Silent night! peaceful night!

[Silent night, peaceful night]

Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 Composer and/or Arranger: Fred A. Fillmore Incipit: 56715 67132 12343 Used With Text: Holy Night, Peaceful Night

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Silent night! Holy night!

Author: Jane M. Campbell; Rev. Joseph Mohr Hymnal: The Book of Common Praise #739 (1939) Meter: Irregular Lyrics: 1 Silent night! holy night! All is calm, all is bright Yonder the Virgin-Mother and Child, Holy Infant so tender and ild, Sleep in heavenly peace, Sleep in heavenly peace. 2 Silent night! holy night! Only for shepherd's sight Came blest visions of angel throngs, With their loud alleluia songs, Saying CHRIST is come, Saying CHRIST is come. 3 Silent night! holy night! Child of heaven, O how bright Thou didst smile on us when thou wast born, Blest indeed was that happy morn, Full of heavenly joy, Full of heavenly joy. Topics: Carols Languages: English Tune Title: SILENT NIGHT

Jesus Christ is here

Hymnal: A Hymnal and Service Book for Sunday Schools, Day Schools, Guilds, Brotherhoods, etc. #543 (1893) First Line: Silent night! peaceful night! Languages: English Tune Title: [Silent night! peaceful night!]

Silent night! peaceful night!

Hymnal: The Sunday-School Hymnal and Service Book (Ed. A) #499 (1887) Languages: English Tune Title: [Silent night! peaceful night!]

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Joseph Mohr

1792 - 1848 Author of "Silent Night! Holy Night!" in The Cokesbury Hymnal Joseph Mohr was born into a humble family–his mother was a seamstress and his father, an army musketeer. A choirboy in Salzburg Cathedral as a youth, Mohr studied at Salzburg University and was ordained in the Roman Catholic Church in 1815. Mohr was a priest in various churches near Salzburg, including St. Nicholas Church. He spent his later years in Hintersee and Wagrein. Bert Polman ================= Mohr, Joseph, was born at Salzburg, Austria, on Dec. 11, 1792. After being ordained priest on Aug. 21, 1815, by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salzburg, he was successively assistant at Ramsau and at Laufen; then coadjutor at Kuchl, at Golling, at Vigaun, at Adnet, and at Authering; then Vicar-Substitute at Hof and at Hintersee--all in the diocese of Salzburg. In 1828 he was appointed Vicar at Hintersee, and in 1837 at Wagrein, near St. Johann. He died at Wagrein, Dec. 4, 1848. The only hymn by him translated into English is:— Stille Nacht! heilige Nacht! Christmas. This pretty little carol was written for Christmas, 1818, while Mohr was assistant clergyman at Laufen, on the Salza, near Salzburg, and was set to music (as in the Garland of Songs) by Franz Gruber, then schoolmaster at the neighbouring village of Arnsdorf (b. Nov. 25, 1787, at Hochburg near Linz, died June 7, 1863, as organist at Hallein, near Salzburg). What is apparently the original form is given by 0. Kraus, 1879, p. 608, in 3 stanzas of 6 lines, and in Dr. Wichern's Unsere Lieder, Hamburg, 1844, No. 111. Another form, also in 3 stanzas of 6 lines, is in T. Fliedner's Lieder-Buch für Kleinkinder-Schulen, Kaiserswerth, 1842, No. 115, and the Evangelical Kinder Gesang-Buch, Basel, 1867. The translations are from the text of 1844. 1. Holy night! peaceful night! All is dark. By Miss J. M. Campbell in C. S. Bere's Garland of Songs, 1863, and thence in Hymns & Carols, London, 1871. 2. Silent night! hallowed night. Land and deep. This is No. 131 in the Christian Hymn Book, Cincinnati, 1865. It is suggested by, rather than a translation of the German. 3. Holy night! peaceful night! Through the darkness. This is No. 8 in J. Barnby's Original Tunes to Popular Hymns, Novello, N. D., 1869; repeated in Laudes Domini, N.Y., 1884, No. 340. 4. Silent night! holy night! All is calm. This is in C. L. Hutchins's Sunday School Hymnal, 1871 (1878, p. 198), and the Sunday School Hymn Book of the Gen. Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 1873, No. 65. 5. Peaceful night, all things sleep. This is No. 17, in Carols for St Stephen's Church, Kirkstall, Leeds, 1872. 6. Silent night, holiest night. All asleep. By Dr. A. Edersheim, in the Sunday at Home, Dec. 18, 1875, repeated in the Church Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, No. 35. 7. Silent night! holy night! Slumber reigns. By W. T. Matson, as No. 132, in Dr. Allon's Children's Worship, 1878. 8. Still the night, holy the night! Sleeps the world. By Stopford A. Brooke, in his Christian Hymns, 1881, No. 55. Translations not in common use:-- (1) "Stilly night, Holy night, Silent stars," by Miss E. E. S. Elliott, privately printed for the choir of St. Mark's, Brighton, about 1858, but first published in the Church Missionary Juvenile Instructor, 1871, p. 198. Also in her Tune Book for Under the Pillow, 1880. (2) "Holy night! calmly bright," by Mary D. Moultrie in Hymns & Lyrics by Gerard Moultrie, 1867, p. 42. (3) "Silent night, holiest night! Moonbeams," by C. T. Brooks, In his Poems, Boston, U. S., 1885, p. 218. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================ Mohr, Joseph, p. 760, ii. The translation "Stilly night, starry and bright," in Farmer's Glees & Songs for High Schools, 1881, p. 36, is by Archdeacon Farrar. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) See also in: Hymn Writers of the Church

Franz Xaver Gruber

1787 - 1863 Person Name: Franz Gruber Composer of "[Silent night! Holy night]" in The Cokesbury Hymnal Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863) was born into a linen weaver's family and studied violin and organ even though his father wanted him to work in the family business. In addition to serving as parish organist for St. Nicholas Church in Obendorf, he taught school in nearby Arnsdorf (1807-1829) and Berndorf (1829-1833). He spent the balance of his career as organist and choir director in Hallein, where he founded the famous Hallein Choral Society. Bert Polman

Jane M. Campbell

1817 - 1878 Person Name: Jane Montgomery Campbell, 1817-1878 Translator of "Silent Night! Holy Night!" in The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada Campbell, Jane Montgomery, daughter of the Rev. A. Montgomery Campbell, born in London, 1817, died at Bovey Tracey, Nov. 15, 1878. Miss Campbell contributed in 1861, a number of translations from the German to the Rev. C. S. Bere's Garland of Songs; or, an English Liederkranz, 1862; and also to his Children’s Choral Book, 1869. The best known and most widely used of these translations is a portion of "Im Anfang war's auf Erden," as the harvest hymn, "We plough the fields and scatter.” Miss Campbell also published A Handbook for Singers, Lond., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d. This small work contains the musical exercises which she taught in her father's parish school. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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