There, he asked his friend Franz Xaver Gruber, a local schoolteacher and organist, to write the music for the six verses. On Christmas Eve, 1818, the two friends sang “Silent Night” together ...

4. It was originally composed for guitar Although Franz Gruber was an organist, he composed the music for Silent Night on guitar. A commonly held myth is that this was because the church organ was ...

Summary: The much-loved carol 'Silent Night' was first performed on Christmas ... Two years later, his friend Franz Gruber set the poem to music and the pair first sang the carol at midnight ...