You may not know the name John Freeman Young, but it's possible you've been singing or humming a song he translated from German into English way back in 1859: Silent ... a poem written by a ...

But in that fall of 1816, a young Catholic priest, Joseph Mohr, had written a six-verse Christmas poem that began “Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht” — Silent Night, Holy Night — about the ...

I added these details into the poem - I needed, eventually, the name of a popular sleeping pill and went to the chemist to inquire. "Stilnox," she told me. "Stilnox," Krystallnacht, "Silent Night ...

‘Silent Night’ is one of the world’s most famous Christmas melodies ... A few years before, he had written a rather beautiful poem called ‘Stille Nacht’. So, he asked Franz Xavez Gruber, a ...

The Silent Night Chapel in Oberndorf bei Salzburg ... Suddenly Joseph Mohr had an epiphany. He remembered a poem he wrote about the night angels announced the birth of the Christ child to the ...

(It was later replaced with the Silent Night Chapel.) An organ builder who ... reveals that Mohr wrote the poem in 1816 when he was assigned to a small church in Mariapfarr, Austria.

“Silent night,” the German version states ... could have probably composed the music for his poem. But instead, he sought help from a friend. In 1817, Mohr transferred to the parish ...

When Mohr contemplated a silent Christmas night, he remembered that he had written a poem two years back. He also remembered his friend Franz Xavier Gruber, a school teacher and his church organist.