The words to this Christmas carol were written on the afternoon of Christmas Eve in 1818 in a tiny village high in the Austrian Alps by the local Catholic priest, Joseph Mohr.
The church pipe organ had just given out and the pipe organ repairman wasn't available at such short notice to repair the organ in time for the Christmas Eve service. The church organist, Franz Gruber, agreed to write out a simple tune to the pastor's text, setting the words for choir and a guitar.
Name this familiar Christmas carol, which was frantically put together on Christmas Eve, 1818.
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