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Come With Me If You Will To The Snow Covered ... PRO
Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Dec 8, 2004 (message contributor)
Come with me if you will to the snow covered mountain paths of Oberndorf, a small village in Austria.
It is a cold Christmas Eve morning in 1818.
As you look across the mountains you will see the local vicar Father Joseph Mohr (1792-1848), winding his way along the path to the village of Arndorf – to visit his friend Franz Gruber (1787-1863).
Mohr is taking with him a poem that he had written some two years earlier in 1816. He desperately needs a carol for the midnight mass that evening - that is now only a few hours away.
He hopes his friend, Gruber, who is the church’s choirmaster and organist - can set his poem to music.
Gruber looks at it and that afternoon composes a melody for Mohr’s poem.
However they can’t play the carol on the local organ because mice had eaten the bellows.
So Gruber composes the music for guitar accompaniment.
And so a few hours after finishing the composition, Gruber and Mohr perform their new song in St. Nicholas Church in Oberndorf.
And that evening, the sounds of a brand new carol breaks the “Silent Night” of the mountain village of Oberndorf.
Is that the true story of the origins of the world famous carol – Silent Night or is it fiction?
Well - actually it is a mixture.
It is fact that Joseph Mohr did write the words in 1816.
It is fact that Franz Gruber did write the music on Christmas Eve in...
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