Christmas Carol Sing-Along · Christmas
Silent Night
Get ready for Christmas. Practise the carols at home, in your own time, on your own or with family and friends. First hear it, then sing it.
1 Listen
Let the choir sing it to you. Follow the music and the words.
2 Sing
Now it’s your turn. The organ plays, and the gold note shows the way.
Words by Joseph Mohr, 1816. Tune by Franz Xaver Gruber, Christmas Eve 1818. English by John Freeman Young, 1859.
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Joseph Mohr, an Austrian assistant priest, wrote these words as a poem in 1816 at Mariapfarr. Two years later, serving at Oberndorf, he asked the schoolteacher and organist Franz Xaver Gruber to set them for two voices, choir and guitar.
More about this carolThe full lyric video and its history