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SILENT NIGHT - HOLY NIGHT.
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Stories Behind Songs of
Inspiration.
by
An American Original
BROTHER LEE HALL
QUIET AS A CHURCH MOUSE:
Church
mice played an important role in pouplarizing one of the most famous and
beautiful Christmas hymns in the world. It seems that Joseph Mohr, pastor
of a church in Oberndorf, Austria, wrote a song to be sung for the Christmas
program in his church the next evening.
When an attempt was made to rehearse
the song on the chruch organ, it was discovered that the organ billows
had been eaten by mice. The song was sung by the pastor and another man
to the accompaniment of a simple quitar.
The
next day, an organ repairman from a village below tested the organ to see
if repairs were successful. He picked up the sheet music left from the
night before and played it. The organ was fixed. The man liked what he
played so much that he took a copy back to his village and gave it to two
sisters who traveled around the countryside singing in concerts and churches.
Wherever they sang the song, people loved it and began to sing with them.
The song was soon popular and traveled to the four corners of the Earth.
We
should always be thankful, especially for small things, because, after
all, if it hadn't been for those church mice, we might never have heard
the song written high in the Austrian mountains in 1818 that we call:
SILENT NIGHT - HOLY NIGHT.
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright.
'Round yon virgin, Mother and
Child
Holy infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace ......
JOSEPH MOHR
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