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Austria Art Music Silent Night Composers Mohr and Gruber stamp 1987 MNH

Austria Art Music Silent Night Composers Mohr and Gruber stamp 1987 MNH

$ 2.1

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Grade: F/VF (Fine/Very Fine)
  • Certification: Genuine
  • Quality: Mint Never Hinged/MNH

    Description

    Good rare stamp.
    Together with
    Joseph Mohr
    , a Catholic priest who wrote the original German lyrics,
    Gruber
    composed the music for the Christmas carol Silent Night. On Christmas Eve of 1818, Mohr, an assistant pastor at St Nicholas, showed Gruber a six-stanza poem he had written in 1816. He asked Gruber to set the poem to music. The church organ had broken down so Gruber produced a melody with guitar arrangement for the poem. The two men sang Stille Nacht for the first time at Christmas Mass in St Nicholas Church while Mohr played guitar and the choir repeated the last two lines of each verse. For a long time many thought that Silent Night was written by Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven.