Christmas song "Silent Night, Holy Night» is included into the World Heritage List of the UNESCO

   Christmas song "Silent Night, Holy Night» is included into the World Heritage List of the UNESCO, March 22 reported the German Radio ‘Vatican’. This was announced at a press conference in Vienna.
   The famous Christmas song has made "significant contribution in preserving of a cultural diversity", reported the Austrian media.
    The famous song was written December 24, 1818 on the Christmas Eve in the Austrian village of Oberndorf near Salzburg. The text was written by the priest of St. Nicholas Joseph Mohr and the music was written by the organist Franz Gruber. The premier of the Anthem was performed at the same day on a solemn Christmas Liturgy.
   According to one legend, the song that one can easily sing without music or by a guitar, was created in a hurry, because the mice had сrunched the church organ bellows.
   The song has widely spread all over the Europe, the German church song collections appeared in 1831, and they said that "the authors of the text and music are unknown”. The authorship of the song was finally identified in 1854.
    At the beginning of XX century the Church in Oberndorf was totally destroyed by flooding. Today there is a small chapel built in its place and there is “a Museum of the Silent Night” opened in the house next to it .
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