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her. on december the 24th 1818 the young priest yosef was sent out for open golf austria to visit his friend from screwball. and together they wanted to set his poem which

dylan knocked silent night to music. he needed to him to perform at the christmas mass in his parish that same night. at the time gruber was a teacher organised and sacristan and on store for a small community of sound spoke. he was expecting his friends who are arrived by the early evening bounty knew how long and arduous the journey was in winter.

the 2 friends both musicians did not take long to find the right melody to accompany moore's contemplated words. it is only a simple composition without any special meaning gruber wrote in his diary.

that enough christmas 1818. on christmas eve $1818.00 a time marked by bitter poverty and need the original german version of silent night holy night it was less 1st song during christmas mass an open door of by the 2 friends to the sound of a guitar line because of. this road only it was intended to be a song of peace and hope in the difficult years after the napoleonic wars or mass water fatalities famine epidemics and found harvests had created a mood of despondency goes if more himself or grown up in grinding poverty and had enjoyed much in the years before he penned the poem that would go on to become a world famous carol. to gether with france he

created a song sung today by 2000000000 people across the globe during the christmas season one that has been translated into more than 300 languages and dialects of business to become but it took 117 years and a very long journey via hamburg new york and los angeles before silent night became the most popular christmas carol of all time. the journey takes soused to the california desert to palm springs at the time the home of pain cross be being crossed. by then being crosby was already the most successful singer of his day he live just outside palm springs in a smaller way series of rancho mirage. his company's offices however were

located on hollywood sunset boulevard the building still exists today. i grew up in the big brother. and we knew it in english from being crosby and we knew it in spanish because those were the 2 languages that were the most famous i would say in america but every schoolchild around the world will sing the song in their language and that's that's how you know the song is just completely transcended popular culture into into world history. like being crosby came to sing silent night by chance one sunday late in the autumn of 1934 he and his brother larry would busy preparing for an annual christmas radio special when a missionary they knew came calling. please accept my apology larry this morning for this intrusion oh i have your proposal for mr crosby is enormous mourning. her father.

what can i do for you i have a proposal for you do you have a minute could you perhaps sing silent night. sacred songs are a little out of my league for a crooner like myself stepped mr crosby the recording will only be heard at the parish father and a hand talked bang into recording this. what song has meant in the annals of history to so many people was something i had been

italy didn't know when i 1st recorded the song i was basing my understanding of the song on other artists i heard sing it it was a cover of another christmas song you know i didn't deep dive into the history of it because i was so concerned about how we would make a new i didn't i wasn't thinking so deeply about the old with it and so to learn about its roots in salzburg to learn about its history through the course of the last many generations sends chills down your spine and so it's an incredible. gift that keeps on giving as a singer to know about. a story that deep and that profound and and inspires whenever i sing in the future so and so it's a lovely lovely story.

literally my 1st experience outside the u.s. when i was a sophomore in high school we went to vienna that was the very 1st place we went and we literally met in a boys' choir and got to hear them sing and it was so magical i mean you have like

teenagers who are generally listening to music like that sobbing like because it was so beautiful an energy something about about the boy singing like that before they become men when you hear something that moves you and moves you no matter what the languages and there are some songs and i feel like silent night is one of those that when you're seeing it doesn't it doesn't even it's so weird it transcends the lyrics it transcends the music. around 1820 life in austria's terrell region was as hard as it was across the rest of europe and the alpine winters were particularly harsh mountain dwellers only left the house when necessary and it took them hours to get down into the valley the musical rhino siblings lived in the tiller tal valley and it was this family quartet that helped spread silent night.

in the winter of 1822 seriously of advanced korea and russia alexander the 1st were residing if you can castle on one evening the rhine a siblings were hired to entertain the guests. silent night was among the songs they performed. our. hour. the alliance trees cast was so taken by their performance that those are invited them to visit russia. as a result the siblings began a tour across europe was. carrying. a

new. orleans. they performed on recommendation in many european cities up to 839. they even sang for england's king george the 4th in windsor castle. i. am. that same year the wryness siblings traveled to the united states after what must have been a difficult crossing of the atlantic they arrived in new york just before christmas . relieved to have arrived safely the musical family visited trinity church on broadway to give thanks they sang silent night for the 1st time ever in english in

the united states.

sure. to ask when did i 1st person that night is kind of like. when she 1st briefing. of us is that i cannot remember i say that's such

a crazy thought i just kind. see. the non. wrong way. out i've always been a big christmas obsessed so when it gets to the time i even like a little bit close to it. i'm just going for it like i make one. and i think my house and myself i mean yes there is a money making thing we mustn't deny this i suppose it is you know so it's valentine's day. but so. i don't can't raise much money as you like i'm hoping to unstick the irish and so is everyone else right now to christmas marks the birth of jesus christ. if a christmas day falls on december 25th.