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Silent Night

   Silent Night was written on Christmas Eve(1818) in Oberndorf, Austria near Salzburg. A hungry mouse had eaten through the leather of the organ bellows, so Joseph Mohr, the priest, and Franz Gruber, the organist, had to compose a carol for the children of the church in short notice. 

The fame of Silent Night spread slowly and by a series of coincidences throughout the world, but it was not until 1867 that the song was published under the names of its true composers. By then, both men were dead.