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It wasn’t until 1995 that, thanks to a lucky coincidence, an Upper Austrian woman was able to shed light on the actual origins of “silent Night” bring.
Renate Ebeling-Winkler from Seewalchen am Attersee worked as a librarian in the Salzburg Museum at the time. “To thank them for their work, I showed my volunteers some of the museum’s ‘treasures’, including sheet music by the ‘Silent Night’ composer Franz Xaver Gruber.” Suddenly the retired high school professor Elisabeth Kruckenhauser said: “You, Renate, I also have a framed, but certainly not valuable, copy of the song hanging in my living room.”
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The next day, from her house on Mönchsberg above Salzburg’s old town, Kruckenhauser brought the document, on which time had not passed without a trace and the Christmas family singing had left traces of use, to her friend’s museum.
“At first glance, I was fascinated by the author’s clean and clear handwriting”says Ebeling-Winkler. At the spot “Text by Joseph Mohr” with the year “1816” However, she was taken aback, as it was the current state of science “silent Night” It was created in Oberndorf in 1818. The historian and librarian was quickly able to rule out any writing or reading errors.
Cognac to calm you down
“Suddenly I felt elated and nervous”, remembers the Upper Austrian. Although Mohr’s signature is represented by the abbreviated addition “manu propriae” was identified as handwritten, she invited musicologists and archivists to make sure that it was an original by Mohr. “Because of the emerging ‘world sensation’, they asked for cognac to calm themselves down”says Ebeling-Winkler with a smile.
A media storm then began that no one had expected. “We couldn’t defend ourselves from inquiries and filming permits.” But it would take some time before the enigmatic year 1816 on the sheet music could be completely deciphered and Mariapfarr was brought into the public eye as the place where the text was created. How the valuable piece of paper came into the possession of the Kruckenhauser family remains unclear to this day.
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