「きよしこの夜」の作者は誰か？ヨーゼフ・モールとフランツ・クサーヴァー・グルーバー

Joseph Mohr, a young assistant priest, wrote the words of “Silent Night”, and Franz Xaver Gruber, a village schoolteacher who also played the organ, wrote the tune. Mohr wrote the words as a poem in 1816, in Mariapfarr in the Lungau, and Gruber set them to music on Christmas Eve 1818. That same night the two of them sang it together for the first time, at the Christmas Mass in the church of St Nicholas in Oberndorf, near Salzburg. Mohr…