EE FPleaseR take one WINTER 2015 EngAGE The story behind the Christmas Carol: Silent Night Keeping Snow Warm Memories VOLUNTEERING + WHATS ON + IN THE COMMUNITY + PUZZLE PAGE + MUCH MORE EngAGE CONTENTS WINTER 2015 10 06 25 28 12 CONTENTS LIST WINTER 2015 The Story Behind the Avoiding Future Arguments Snow Memories . 24 Christmas Carol: When You Make Your Will . 12 Three volunteers from the Heanor Silent Night . 06 Michael Spencer provides practical shop share their memories of snow. Find out more about Silent Night and advice on the grounds of contesting the myths that gathered around a Will and how to stop it. In the Garden . 25 its origins. Winter gardening tips. Recruiting Volunteers . 16 In the Kitchen . 08 Age UK Derby & Derbyshire’s targeted Sybil Levin Health and Butternut squash and apple soup approach to finding volunteers Wellbeing Centre . 28 from Fit as a Fiddle project. for its Footcare Service. 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In October 1819, Mohr was The melody was composed by Gruber, transferred from Obernorf to who was also born into poverty at Kuchl and somewhere between Unterweizberg, near Hochburgh, that time and 1821, he wrote out Austria. Gruber showed his musical an arrangement of the carol. This talents early. His father Joseph manuscript was discovered in Gruber, a linen weaver, discouraged 1995 and dated by researchers at his study of music so he studied the circa 1820 and that is the earliest violin secretly. He was the school manuscript that still exists and the teacher at Arnsdorf from 1807 to only one in Mohr’s handwriting. It 1829. During that time, he was also shows that Mohr wrote the words the organist at Oberndorf where he in 1816 when he was assigned wrote the Silent Night melody. to a pilgrim church in Mariapfarr, Austria, and shows that the music Before Christmas Eve, Mohr brought was composed by Gruber in 1818. the words to Gruber and asked him It is displayed in the Carolino to compose a melody and guitar Augusteum Museum in Salzburg. Silent Night is one of the world’s most accompaniment for the church service. popular Christmas carols . It owes its In a letter written by Franz Gruber, The spread in popularity of the popularity to its peaceful melody and son of the composer, he noted that: carol can be attributed to Carl (or its simple narration of the Christmas Karl) Mauracher, who made his tale . As the fame of this carol grew, its “During the time when my father home in the Ziller Valley and in whereabouts were slowly forgotten . was the organist of the church 1821 repaired the damaged organ Myths and fanciful tales gathered around St Nikola, there was a very poor in Arnsdorf, where Gruber lived, its origins and only recently was the almost unusable organ there.” and installed a new organ in the name of the real composer discovered . church of St Nicholas in Oberndorf This may explain why Reverend Mohr in 1825. During this time Mauracher preferred to accompany the carol on had with him the words and melody Silent Night: The Facts a well-tuned guitar than on an off-pitch for ‘Stille Nacht!’ and shared this The song ‘Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht’ (Silent organ. On 30th December 1854, Gruber song with two neighbouring families Night! Holy Night) was first performed on wrote the following: of singers in the Ziller Valley, the Christmas Eve in 1818 at St Nicholas parish Strassers and the Rainers. Both church in Oberndorf, a village on the Salzach “On December 24th in the year 1818 families embraced the song and River in Austria located approximately 11 the curate of the newly erected sang it throughout Europe. miles north-northwest from Salzburg. This parish-church St Nicola of Obernorf, performance had been years in the making Mr Joseph Mohr handed over a According to the Stille Nacht with the lyrics having been written two years poem to the deputy organist, Franz Gesellschaft (Silent Night before by Reverend Joseph Mohr (1792 Gruber (at that time also teacher Association) the original Rainer – 1848) and the melody being composed at Arnsdorf) with the request to Family Singers sang the song in the by Franz Xaver Gruber (1787 – 1863). compose a suitable melody for parish church of Fügen (Zillertal) two solo voices with choir and the at Christmas 1819 and again three A young assistant priest, Reverend Joseph accompaniment of one guitar.” years later at the Castle of Count Mohr, had come to Oberndorf the year Dönhoff. It was during this period before. He had already written the lyrics of Gruber did so and both performed the that the original melody was slightly the song ‘Stille Nacht’ in 1816 at Mariapfarr, carol during the midnight mass on 24th changed. The association also in the Salzburg Lungau region in Austria, December 1818. Mohr sang the tenor reports the song was included where Mohr had worked as a coadjutor and part and provided accompaniment in a church songbook dated where he was living at the time. The source with guitar, while Gruber sang the bass 22nd July, 1819 and prepared of his inspiration is unknown; Mariapfarr and the church choir did the refrains by Blasius Wimmer, organist was home to his grandfather, and this area of each verse, which consisted of the and teacher in Waidring (Tirol). had suffered greatly during the Napoleonic last two lines of the verse. According Unfortunately, this can’t be wars, which had just ended.