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Show Most Beloved Carol Is 'Silent Night' The most beloved carol of the many that are sung in all parts of the world is "Silent Night" that simple and tender German song. Its origin was unknown for many years. Recent research, however, disclosed that it was written by Joseph Mohr, an assistant priest in Oberndorf in South Germany. The melody was composed by a schoolmaster, Franz Gruber. The poet and the composer were part of the choir that sang the carol for the first time on Christmas Christ-mas Eve in the Oberndorf church to 1818. The night it was sung the small church's organ was out of order and the choir sang to the. accompaniment accom-paniment of a guitar. Since then the carol has been sung to the tune of almost every musical instrument in the world i and in the languages of nearly j nil men. |