This undated score, written by Joseph Mohr and titled 'Weynachts Lied' ('Christmas Carol'), is the earliest known surviving copy of 'Silent Night.' Salzburg Museum Over the centuries, hundreds of ...

In 1818, when Wilhelm Mohr was 7 years old, his older brother, Catholic priest Joseph Mohr, penned the words to "Silent Night" and asked his friend, Franz Gruber, to compose music for it on the guitar ...

THEY SAY IT’S all the fault of a poor church mouse. It was the winter of 1818 in the village of Oberndorf near the Austrian Bavarian border. It’s a poor region and often the people starve. Like all ...