What is the English title of the carol written in 1818 by Austrian priest Josef Mohr originally called Stille Nacht?
Christmas carol folksong arranged by Ernst Anschütz; "Silent Night" ("Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht"), by the Austrians Franz Xaver Gruber and Joseph Mohr; and "Still, Still, Still", an Austrian folksong also from the Salzburg region, based on an 1819 melody by Süss, with the original words, slightly changed over time and location, by G. Götsch. The carol most familiar in German is probably the 19th-century "O du fröhliche". Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann wrote a scientific book on German Christmas carols which is also a song book. Greek tradition calls for children to go out with triangles from house to house on Christmas Eve, New Year's
Joseph Mohr in Mariapfarr. Poor health forced him to return to Salzburg in the summer of 1817. After a short recuperation he began serving as an assistant priest at St. Nicholas in Oberndorf, where he made the acquaintance of Franz Gruber, schoolteacher in neighbouring Arnsdorf. On a cold Christmas Eve in 1818, Mohr walked the three kilometres from his home in Oberndorf bei Salzburg to visit his friend Franz Xaver Gruber in the neighbouring town of Arnsdorf bei Laufen. Mohr brought with him a poem he had written some two years earlier. He needed a carol for the Christmas Eve midnight Mass