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Silent Night Lyrics. [Verse 1] Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright. Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child. Holy Infant so tender and mild. Sleep in heavenly peace. [Verse 2]...
Silent Night is a popular Christmas carol that includes the phrase "all is calm, all is bright" in the first verse. The carol celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ and the peace he brings to the world.
Find the lyrics of the classic Christmas carol Silent Night, also known as Stille Nacht, written by Joseph Mohr in 1818. The song includes the phrase "all is calm, all is bright" in the first verse.
- The Growth of The Song
- Naming Controversy
- Translation
Recent river flooding had likely damaged the church organ. Repeated flooding would later destroy the whole building. (It was later replaced with the Silent Night Chapel.) An organ builder who serviced the instrument at the Oberndorf church, Karl Mauracher, loved the song and took it with him home to the Ziller Valley. From there, groups of folk sin...
Mohr’s original manuscript had been lost and, thus, Gruber was thought to be the original composer. Though those who didn’t know Gruber’s name assumed it was written by Mozart or Beethoven or another big-name classical music composer. But in 1995 a manuscript, later discovered with Mohr’s handwriting and dated by researchers to be from 1820, reveal...
John Freeman Young wrote an English translation of the song in 1859, which is best known today. The version was translated from three of Mohr’s original six verses. The song is sung slowly, and intentionally, like a lullaby. To date, “Silent Night” has been translated into more than 140 languages with a Silent Night Museum located in Salzburg. [REL...
- Jacob Uitti
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All is calm, all is bright, round yon virgin mother and child; holy infant, so tender and mild, sleep in heavenly peace. 2 Silent night, holy night. Shepherds quake at the sight, glories stream from heaven afar, heav'nly hosts sing alleluia:
Sing along to SILENT NIGHT song with our music, lyrics and video. The origin of the Christmas carol we know as Silent Night was a poem that was written in 1816 by an Austrian priest called Joseph Mohr.
All is calm, all is bright. Round yon virgin mother and Child. Holy Infant, so tender and mild, Sleep in heavenly peace, Sleep in heavenly peace. Silent night, holy night! Shepherds quake at the sight; Glories stream from heaven afar, Heav’nly hosts sing Alleluia!
