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24\/12\/1818, Oberndorf near Salzburg:<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>Birth of the song \u201cSilent Night\u201d, performed by its creators Joseph Mohr and Franz Xaver Gruber.<\/p>\n

1819, Waidring<\/b>: A version of the song with seven (!) verses is contained in the now missing church songbook of Blasius Wimmer, organist and teacher in Waidring. It is quite possible that Carl Mauracher passed the song onto him during his \u201crepair travels\u201d.<\/p>\n

December 1822, F\u00fcgen:<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>Emperor Franz I of Austria and Alexander I of Russia are guests at the castle of Count D\u00f6nhoff. The Count asks the Rainer siblings to perform folksongs for the entertainment of his guests. Among other songs, they perform \u201cSilent Night\u201d, impressing the visitor from Russia especially. He invites them to his court in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n

Autumn 1824, F\u00fcgen:<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>The Rainer siblings begin their first journey abroad to Germany. They found the era of the \u201cTirolean national singers\u201d who significantly contribute to the dissemination of \u201cSilent Night\u201d.<\/p>\n

November 1825, F\u00fcgen<\/b>: The Rainer siblings (\u201cUr-Rainer\u201d) begin their second concert tour. It leads them from Germany to Sweden and England. As Alexander already passes away in December of 1825, they change their travel itinerary. The \u201cUr-Rainer\u201d group continues to travel through Europe until 1838.<\/p>\n

1827 \u2013 1832, Steyr:<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>Joseph Greis, book printer and seller in Steyr, releases a flyer with the title \u201cFour Beautiful New Christmas Songs\u201d between 1827 and 1832 (exact date unknown): \u201cSilent Night\u201d is also announced on the cover page. This proves that the first print dissemination of the song began in Steyr. Since Greis was a book seller too, people were able to buy the print directly from him as well.<\/p>\n

December 1831, Hippach\/Leipzig:<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>The Strasser siblings from Laimac near Hippach perform \u201cSilent Night\u201d at the Christmas market in Leipzig. The family of farmers from the Zillertal valley spends the winter months travelling Europe as goods dealers to sell local hand-made products on the markets, especially gloves. It quickly became apparent that singing folk songs was good for sales.<\/p>\n

1832 \u2013 1834, Leipzig:<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>The Strasser siblings are invited to Leipzig for additional performances. This leads to \u201cSilent Night\u201d being put down in written form once again: Between 1832 and 1834, the publisher A. R. Friese from Dresden released a collection of Tirolean Christmas songs with the title \u201cFour Authentic Tirolean Songs by the Strasser Siblings from the Zillertal Valley.\u201d The result is a \u201cZillertal version\u201d of the song, which could be traced back to the Strasser siblings.<\/p>\n

1834\/1835, Berlin:<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>The Strasser siblings tour Germany, staying in Berlin. The Christmas song impresses Frederick William IV of Prussia, who \u2014 years later \u2014 will request the song\u2019s sheet music in Salzburg.<\/p>\n

1838, Leipzig:<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>Inclusion of \u201cSilent Night\u201d into the melody book of the \u201cCatholic Song and Prayer Book for Public and Private Worship for to be Used Primarily by the Catholic Community of the Kingdom of Saxony.\u201d<\/p>\n

1839, New York:<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>The second generation of Rainer singers \u2014 under the aegis of Ludwig Rainer, son of Maria Rainer \u2014 from the Zillertal valley begin a concert tour to America: They\u2019ve also got \u201cSilent Night\u201d in their repertoire. The first performance of the song allegedly takes place in front of the Trinity Church in New York. What follows are several years of touring as the admired \u201cRainer Family\u201d which leads the four singers through New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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