Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht - 200 years

Subject: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
From: Andy7
Date: 24 Dec 18 - 03:36 AM

Happy 200th birthday!

Subject: RE: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Dec 18 - 10:23 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W15DEj-omg

Subject: RE: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
From: Rapparee
Date: 24 Dec 18 - 10:59 AM

Zweihundert Jahre für einen der besten Weihnachtslieder, die jemals geschrieben wurden. Wow!

Subject: RE: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
From: Andy7
Date: 24 Dec 18 - 02:19 PM

Ja, ich stimme zu, "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht" ist wunderschön! Ich singe dieses Weihnachtslied gerne auf Deutsch.

Subject: RE: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
From: Rex
Date: 24 Dec 18 - 02:32 PM

This evening, Christmas eve, keep in mind that one of our most beloved carols, Silent Night was made into a song in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to a poem written by Joseph Mohr two years earlier in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. The story goes that it was discovered that the bellows for the church organ were damaged, some say by mice, some say by flood waters. There would be no music for Christmas day. Franz Gruber asked his friend to compose a melody for guitar as they at least had that for music making. The resulting song, composed in haste has endured for two centuries.

Subject: RE: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
From: leeneia
Date: 26 Dec 18 - 04:55 PM

Yes, it's a beautiful song. At my church we have a tradition of closing the Christmas eve service by standing on the front steps of the church with candles, singing Silent Night for whoever passes by.

I play soprano recorder at the back to keep everybody together.

Subject: RE: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
From: Pamela R
Date: 27 Dec 18 - 12:23 AM

This song has a special memory for me too. Every year at Christmas Eve service, just before midnight, the church lights went completely out, and the church choir (in which my whole family sang) entered the church slowly down every aisle, carrying candles and singing "Stille Nacht". We all reached the front by the end of the second verse, and blew the candles out. Pitch black... Silence... Then all at once a huge organ chord, the choir broke into a rousing "Break Forth O' Beauteous Heav'nly Light" (a Bach cantata, I believe), and all the church lights came on at once. So theatrical!

It still makes my eyes tear up every time I remember it.