Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-07-13 | Page 8 | Composers of Songs Honored

COMPOSERS OF OP SONGS HONORED A IlIago In Austria Bill mak recognition of ot Its lis 0 on o n contribution contribution contribution tion to the world s a great creat hen It unveils a monument to 10 the authors author ot of o Stilie Still or Silent Night as It Is known 1 l thIs countr country The Tho town toun to n Is Obern- Obern Oberndorf Obern-dorf Obern dort dorf near ne r Salzburg and the cre cre- cre creators creators of ot the th bolo beloved cd Christmas carol were Joseph Mohr then Qi- Qi assistant tl tant priest In that parish bo ho wrote the text tet and Franz Gruber the village e who I composed the music Tho The foundations foundation tion of the monument are to be b laid this summer Bummer and the un unell unell- ln ell ell- ellIng Ing Is la to take tahe tak place ly ly Iy on Christmas da day no cirol Is so o universally universally sally loved and sung suns as sImple song son An made some tonio time ao ago by Luda Lud Irk revealed the fet that tho song seng had bad been ben written In dort dort dorf about one hundred sear ealS ago and that It had been sung sun for tor th the first time on eve ve In the iliago church The poet who nho had hada hada a tenor voice sang sane the the composer a baa bass sang sans a sec arc second arcond sec second ond part and a ft hastily recruited choir of oung women omen the tho retrain refrain A guitar furnished the nc accompaniment ment the organ oran beIng out of ot- ot Older ol older der T Twenty enty year years or so o later II a family of ot strolling Ing rs from the T T Tirol rol rei added It to their reper- reper r per tire and In III 1840 It was sas as printed In Leipsic n as a genuine T can Tirol-can rol- rol rolean rolean ean song many bears th composer ot or the th song ag ong v is lS s given as Joseph IIa Ha probably mean mean- meanIng Int log Ing the tho great creat Franz Joseph JosephIa Ha Ia in 00 00