4. It was originally composed for guitar Although Franz Gruber was an organist, he composed the music for Silent Night on guitar. A commonly held myth is that this was because the church organ was ...

Joseph Mohr had brought the words to Franz Xaver Gruber, the choir director, who had composed an accompanying melody. With Priest Mohr playing the guitar, “Silent Night” was first performed in ...

Summary: The much-loved carol 'Silent Night' was first performed on Christmas ... Two years later, his friend Franz Gruber set the poem to music and the pair first sang the carol at midnight ...

Clarkson then explains why she thinks "Silent Night" has remained so special in the centuries since it was first composed by Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber in Salzburg, Austria, in 1818.