User blog:ARTaylor/200 Years of Silent Night

Today marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the first use of the song Silent Night. The song is one of the most popular Christmas carols ever made, with one version sung by Bing Crosby being the third best-selling single of all time. It was composed in 1818 by Austrian schoolmaster Franz Xaver Gruber. It was first sung during the Christmas Eve service of the St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf. Since then the song has been translated into one-hundred forty languages.