“silent night, Holy night”, probably one of the most well-known Christmas songs, celebrating 200-year anniversary. What a musician, and deans to think about the contemplative verses? Our newspaper asked.
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen – Usually sung by the world-famous Christmas song “silent night, Holy night” only three stanzas. On the Alm at the Oberhauser in Egling, all eight were sounded recently by way of exception. The VdK-Ortsverband took the 200-year anniversary of the formation of the occasion to present the 70 guests, the other, equally beautiful verses. “It’s a lovely peace song”, explained local Chairman Maximilian Hartl and told the story of the composer Franz Xaver Gruber and the Poet Joseph Mohr, had to improvise in 1818, on the Quick in Oberndorf bei Salzburg a song, because the organ had failed. A guitar rendition of a result of the co-production was so successful, how it could have been held at this evening, no audience possible. Cornelia Hartl sang, Katharina Bern Lochner played the Zither. And even a Christmas mood.
+ In the case of a musician Sissy Mayrhofer silent night, Holy night, “” immediately in front of the Mess be sung.©Archive
Franz and Sissy Mayrhofer designed to sing over the decades, with many of the laity of the Region in the Prince Regent theatre in Munich’s advent. The idea is to vary the famous “silent night”melody, Franz Mayrhofer never came. “It is for me in the family,” he says. In fact, it has Walramer an important role, if the (musician)come together as a family. “The song is immediately played in front of the Dam and sung,” says Sissy. You will have to improvise with regard to the simplicity of the song as little as possible – and that means something especially in the case of the Mayrhofer brothers, Gregory and Raphael, the form as we know, the Duo with the programmatic name “Imbrothersation”. The current Hype around the simple oberdorfer way that pervades in all variations from all of the speakers, see Franz Mayrhofer critical. “The army song,” he says succinctly.
To be frugal with “silent night,” advises Mark Ehlert, a Church musician in St. Andreas in Wolfratshausen. There is only one proper place for the Christmas classic, namely, in the heralded silent night from the 24. on the 25. December. This can be at the beginning of the Christmas Matins, as in his home region of Westphalia, or at the output, as at Dumanbet 24. in the evening, in St. Andrew. “The inflationiären use, I think it is not correct,” says Ehlert. This position he has also represented to parents that have missed the song in the children’s Christmas mass in the afternoon.
+ Dean Martin Steinbach to the Christmas song much noteworthy.©Archive
discussion of the choice of the songs Dean Martin Steinbach leads again and again. About, as he had not in his capacity as a Protestant pastor, to end a worship service with “Oh Du Fröhliche”. “That’s me sweet for the Christmas message, this is me to a lot of frosting,” he explains. Completely, without reservation, his love for “silent night”. “Actually, not shreds of my personal spirituality, this languid,” he says. “Too far to the harsh reality of this birth gap for me-a night in Bethlehem and the Lard of the song in lyrics and melody.”
Nevertheless, the Dean, on the occasion of the round birthday with the song closer, and a reverence about it, a lot of remarkable finds. About the spread from Austria all over the world. “What is today via the Internet no Problem, was already a Sensation.” Or to protect exactly this song in the First world war, German and British soldiers fraternal in the trenches, to the generals forced them to shoot each other again.
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last but Not least the song “two basic human desires, which leave us to today: silence and Holiness shall designate for Steinbach.” Maybe it is what has helped the song to his fame. And not so much the “lovely boy in curly hair,” the lyricist Joseph Mohr wishes for a heavenly peaceful sleep.
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