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- 2009. Arnsdorf, as motif for the Silent Night postage stamp 2009
The special stamp of the year 2009, published by the Silent-Night-Society, shows the Arnsdorf Grammar School, where Franz Xaver Gruber taught from 1807 to 1829. It was there, where on December 24th, 1818 he must have composed the carol. ”Silent-Night.“ He used a poem which, two years earlier, Joseph Mohr had written in Mariapfarr in the Lungau.
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- History of origins
Information about the History of Origins of "Silent Night" (12 pages).
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- 2009: DVD available: Silent Night, Holy Night: A Message of Peace
ORF Landesstudio Salzburg and „Stille Nacht Land Salzburg“ have produced a documentation about the famous Christmas Carol. The film follows the traces and locations where the carol emerged and includes historic facts and backgrounds. The documentation was filmed in the city of Salzburg, and the towns of Mariapfarr, Oberndorf, Arnsdorf, Wagrain, Hochburg and Hallein. The DVD is now available, 7 and 17 minutes in 8 different languages on one DVD.
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- 2009 Oberndorf’s Special Christmas Postmark
The special post office in Oberndorf open its doors every year since 1968. The motive of the special stamp for the Christmas post office in the Silent-Night-area is dedicated Leopold Kohr on his 100th birthday. DDr. Leopold Kohr (October 5th, 1909 – February 2nd, 1994), University professor, philosopher and political economist and famous member of the Oberndorf community was an Alternative Nobel Prize laureate and mentor of his time.
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- 2008: Silent Night Association presented new publication
Silent Night The Autographs of Joseph Mohr and Franz Xaver Gruber With documents to the history of the carol 190 years ago, on Christmas eve of the year 1818, the Christmas carol Silent Night was performed for the first time by its authors, the priest Joseph Mohr and teacher and organist Franz Xaver Gruber „to great acclaim“ for matins at the old St. Nikolaus Church at Oberndorf. Publication in German and English language. 64 pages, 17 facsimiles, 8 figures, 17 pages of score Strube Verlag, Edition 9073, Munich 2008. ISBN 978 3 89912 119 3 Please call for your personal press copy: Silent Night Association, Renate Schaffenberger, Tel. +43 (0) 664-9309919 or info@silentnight.at
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- "Silent Night" the Debut in the USA
"Silent Night" the Debut in the USA. 168 years ago the Rainer singers performed "Silent Night! Holy Night!" the first time in America, near the Trinity Church in New York.
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- Bishop John Freeman Young.
"Silent Night" was his gift to the English speaking nations. Bishop John Freeman Young translated the carol into the English language.
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- Silent Night as a motif on stamps
Themes of Silent Night are worldwide used as motives for stamps. Please find some examples in our data bank of pictures.
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