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A young Austrian priest hands a folded sheet to a teacher-organist inside a candlelit church, with a guitar beside them.Music

The first performance of Silent Night on 24 December 1818

Silent Night was first performed in Oberndorf on Christmas Eve 1818. Joseph Mohr supplied a poem written in 1816, Franz Xaver Gruber composed the melody, and the two introduced the carol that same evening.

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