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  Silent Night Road
The music was added December 24, 1818, by Franz Xaver Gruber, the parish organist, who was also a schoolteacher in the nearby village of Arnsdorf.
The Franz Gruber Museum is located in the apartment where he lived with his family.
Gruber's grave is near the entrance to the museum
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 Gruber, Franz Xaver Music Web Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber - Photograph of an Austrian memorial to the Silent Night creators includes link to MIDI versions and to one version of the song's history.
Franz Xaver Gruber - Brief biography and portrait linked to Joseph Mohr information, text, MIDI tune, and MWC score of Silent Night plus translations of his carol Holy Night.
Gruber, Franz Xaver - Brief musical biography focused on Silent Night from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Composition_Composers_G_Gruber,_Franz_Xaver.html   (1640 words)

  
 Silent Night and other Gruber music
Various music historians have claimed that Gruber's melody is not original and have attempted to show similarities between the melody of the carol and other tunes in folk and classical music.
Gruber's "German Mass in D" was sung at Midnight Mass 1998 at the University Church in Salzburg.
Gruber's 1855 arrangement for organ and choir was posted on websites in Germany, South Africa, Australia, Canada and the United States.
www.fortunecity.com /victorian/museum/59/music.html   (453 words)

  
 Biography Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The composer of the carol, Franz Xaver Gruber, was born in the Upper Austrian Innviertel on November 25
One of Gruber’s promoters was Andreas Peterlechner, a teacher in Oberndorf, who helped him to become headmaster and organist.
From 1816 on he also had to serve as the organist in the church of St. Nikola in Oberndorf, which was three kilometres away.
www.museumonline.at /1998/schools/salzburg/sb_obern/gruber_e.htm   (167 words)

  
 Find A Grave Cemetery Records- Franz Gruber
As the priest was an excellent guitarist, Gruber composed the now-familiar melody in an arrangement for two voices and guitar.
After his death at age 75, he was buried in the church cemetery of Maria am Moesl in Hallein, Austria, where he had been choir director for 30 years.
When the cemetery was later moved, his remians were left undisturbed to lie in close proximity to his former living quarters, now the Franz Xaver Gruber Museum.
www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8225678&pt=Franz+Gruber   (202 words)

  
 Silent Night - Gruber Gallery
In 1854 the origin of Silent Night was documented by Franz Xaver Gruber on a request by the Royal Prussian Court Orchestra in Berlin to the Benedictine Monastery in Salzburg, where they hoped to find the original song which they presumed had been composed by Michael Haydn.
Franz Gruber's document describing his involvement with the carol are the only words written from first-hand knowledge about "Stille Nacht!
July 6, 1863 - Gruber dies at the age of 76 and is buried in the churchyard at Hallein
www.fortunecity.com /victorian/museum/59/gruber.html   (310 words)

  
 Gruber Daring Fireballby John Gruber. Friday, 12 Nov 2004. Ordinarily, This Is The Sort Of Thing I'd Pos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ruth Gruber has led a remarkable life dedicated to rescuing her fellow Jews from oppression at age 20), Gruber attended Nazi rallies and listened to Adolf Hitler vituperate against.
Biography Composer, conductor, chansonnier and double bass player HK Gruber is one of the most well-known and well As a conductor, Gruber works regularly with groups such as Ensemble Modern.
Kelly Gruber batting, fielding and pitching major league baseball lifetime statistics for each season and his career, and a list of any post-season awards he has won and his rank on various season and career statistical leaderboards.
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 Franz Gruber -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Franz Gruber -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Franz Xaver Gruber (1787–1863) was an (A native or inhabitant of Austria) Austrian primary school teacher and organist in the village of Oberndorf and then in Hallein, (City in western Austria; a music center and birthplace of Mozart) Salzburg.
Together with (Click link for more info and facts about Josef Mohr) Josef Mohr (original German lyrics), he composed the (Joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ) Christmas carol " (Click link for more info and facts about Silent Night, Holy Night) Silent Night, Holy Night".
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/franz_gruber.htm   (104 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts:Music:Composition:Composers:G:Gruber, Franz Xaver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Please submit sites dealing with the life or music of Franz Xaver Gruber, including biographies, discographies, analyses of compositions, or bibliographies.
Although he likely composed at least ninety works, Austrian composer Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863) is most remembered and best loved for the melody he wrote for Father Joseph Mohr's Christmas carol "Silent Night."
Gruber was also great-great-grandfather of Twentieth Century Austrian composer HK Gruber.
dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/G/Gruber,_Franz_Xaver/desc.html   (65 words)

  
 Pozycjonowanie promocja - Arts > Music > Composition > Composers > G > Gruber, Franz Xaver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Franz Xaver Gruber - Biography, portrait, and picture of his grave near the entrance to his museum in Hallein, Austria.
Franz Xaver Gruber - Listing at the Lied and Art Songs Text Page with lyrics to "Glade jul, dejlige jul."
Silent Night and Local History Museum - Regional information plus brief biography of the song's composer and writer, portraits, and model of Gruber's birth home in Oberndorf, in the Innviertel region of Upper Austria.
www.websukces.net /dmoz/index.php?c=/Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/G/Gruber,_Franz_Xaver   (310 words)

  
 Music, Composition, Composers, Gruber: Franz Xaver   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber" title="Info for Plaque Honoring Fr.
Photograph of an Austrian memorial to the Silent Night creators includes link to MIDI versions and to one version of the song's history.
Regional information plus brief biography of the song's composer and writer, portraits, and model of Gruber's birth home in Oberndorf, in the Innviertel region of Upper Austria.
www.holidays-sites.info /dir/Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/G/Gruber,_Franz_Xaver/index.cgi   (344 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article on Franz Gruber [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 GRUBER, Franz Xaver 1787, Austria
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 Reviews - Franz Xaver Gruber - Classical Music Recordings - CD, DVD, SACD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Works for voices, strings, horns, & organ by Franz Joseph Haydn, Michael Haydn, & Franz Xaver Gruber
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