Show Ow cw 6 9 en N I 9 Game came e iilo o The time th the day before Christmas Christmas' Christmas Christmas' Eve 1818 the place a tiny mountain village in Austri Au Au- The organ of St. St Nicholas Nichola church was broken and the organist organist or or- Franz Fran Gruber could no not repair it in ip time for the midnight mass nass for which h he had planned a musical program He went went to the ic young parish priest prie t Joseph Mohr in jn distress Father Mohr agreed to write I words for a simple melody if Gruber would compose one which could be sung to the accompaniment accompaniment ac- ac of a guitar which the he organist played Walking home lome that cold clear night after having laving administered the last I rites ites to a dying woman th the i priest gazed upon the heavenly canopy of stars and the inspiration inspiration tion ion for the verses came to him im N Next day Gruber set them to music and Silent Night Holy Night was given to the world |