Silent Night

Silent Night

for Piano Trio

“Silent Night” is one of the most beloved and widely recognized Christmas carols in the world. This arrangement brings a warm, festive atmosphere to your Christmas piano trio collection.

Its story begins in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, a small village in Austria. In 1816, a young assistant priest, Joseph Mohr, had written a poem: “Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht”. On Christmas Eve 1818, he brought it to Franz Xaver Gruber, the village schoolteacher and church organist, and asked him to set it for two voices, choir and guitar. The church organ was in very poor condition at the time. Gruber composed the melody that same day, and that night, at Midnight Mass, Mohr sang the tenor part and played the guitar, while Gruber sang the bass.

The carol then traveled slowly, carried by an organ builder and by families of Tyrolean folk singers, all the way to Leipzig, and then to New York in 1839. Today, “Silent Night” is sung in hundreds of languages and remains a cherished part of Christmas celebrations around the globe.