Franz Xaver Gruber and Joseph Mohr are best known for composing the timeless Christmas carol Silent Night. Gruber, a schoolteacher and church organist, composed the melody, while Mohr, a young priest, ...

The gentle, familiar lyrics will emanate across the world on Christmas Eve, at church services, across radio airwaves and through living room speakers. Silent night, holy night. It’s a song that ...

If there's one song that captures the true spirit of Christmas, it must be "Silent Night." The song's message of peace has been sung in more than 300 languages. Everyone from Elvis to Nat King Cole to ...

Earliest surviving manuscript of “Silent Night,” in the handwriting of the Rev. Joseph Mohr. (photo: Salzburg Museum). The hills around Salzburg are alive, we hear, “alive with the sound of music.” ...

Joseph Franz Mohr (1792–1848) was an Austrian priest and lyricist of the beloved Christmas carol “Silent Night.” Born in Salzburg to humble beginnings, Mohr was drawn to faith and music from a young ...

In 1816, near the starving and ruined city of Salzburg, Austria, a 24-year-old priest named Joseph Mohr suffered, along with his parishioners, in the wreckage of the Napoleonic Wars. In that suffering ...

In 1987, Nicks recorded her cover of “Silent Night” for the charity album, A Very Special Christmas, which benefited the Special Olympics. The charity album was the brainchild of producer Jimmy Iovine ...

We can't get enough of Enya's haunting Irish rendition of the Christmas carol “Silent Night” (“Oíche Chiúin”). Irish singer Enya’s Christmas songs and albums are among our favorites but this ...

Christian Associates of Southwest Pennsylvania (CASP) is encouraging all Christians to join in a socially distant, yet spiritually unified, “Silent Night” singalong on Christmas Eve. The event will ...

Two of the biggest country acts of the last several decades are coming together for a new Christmas song and tour. Phil Vassar and Lonestar have joined forces for a new song titled "Not So Silent ...