An Irish artist's haunting rendition of "Silent Night" shot in an eerily quiet Killarney will pull on your heartstrings. Grace Foley's take on the timeless Christmas hymn feels especially poignant in ...

The story starts long before that, though. It starts with a poem written by Father Joseph Mohr in 1816, an assistant priest in Mariapfarr, Austria. Written in German, it was called “Stille Nacht.” Two ...

The CW’s “Silent Night — A Song for the World,” a musical documentary about the creation of the famed Christmas song, will feature Hugh Bonneville, Kelly Clarkson, David Foster, Katharine McPhee, Josh ...

But what is the history and meaning of the song beyond its tender qualities? That’s what we’re going to dive into here today. The Song’s History and Meaning Composed in 1818 by Franz Gruber (not to be ...

Earliest surviving manuscript of “Silent Night,” in the handwriting of the Rev. Joseph Mohr. (photo: Salzburg Museum). The hills around Salzburg are alive, we hear, “alive with the sound of music.” ...

The gentle, familiar lyrics will emanate across the world on Christmas Eve, at church services, across radio airwaves and through living room speakers. Silent night, holy night. It’s a song that ...

At the end of 1945, in a little Michigan town close to where the “thumb” of the lower peninsula meets the “fingers,” the aspiring sign painter Wally Bronner, 18, held an exhibition of Christmas ...

Silent Night, Holy Night, the heroes journey of young Joseph Mohr, in 1818, creating the world's most famous Christmas song. The real life story of the song is told as fictional story.

On Christmas Eve in 1818, two men with a small guitar entered a church in Oberndorf, Austria, and prepared to sing a new Christmas carol. Times had been bad in Oberndorf, where many people worked on ...

The names Joseph Mohr and Franz Xaver Gruber have largely vanished into the annals of Christmas tormentors, but their greatest triumph lives on. “Silent Night,” which Mohr wrote the lyrics for (in ...

Two of the biggest country acts of the last several decades are coming together for a new Christmas song and tour. Phil Vassar and Lonestar have joined forces for a new song titled "Not So Silent ...