![]() Twelve years of war had decimated the country’s political and social infrastructure. ![]() ![]() In the fall of 1816, Mohr’s congregation in the town of Mariapfarr was reeling. The song’s lyrics were originally written in German just after the end of the Napoleonic Wars by a young Austrian priest named Joseph Mohr. ![]() Its origins – in a small Alpine town in the Austrian countryside – were far humbler.Īs a musicologist who studies historical traditions of song, the story of “Silent Night” and its meteoric rise to worldwide fame has always fascinated me. ![]()
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