Christmas - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2013 - 62 Euro Cent

The present role brand commemorates the 150th anniversary of the death of the creator of the most well-known Christmas carol in the world, "Silent Night, Holy Night": the Austrian composer Franz Xaver Gruber. A single tune was enough to secure a permanent place in the history of music literature - and that, even though the Salzburg musician spent his entire life in music. The brand motif shows a portrait of Gruber as well as the nocturnal illuminated "Silent Night" band imhübsch snowy Salzburg Oberndorf.Zur person: Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863) was born in Unterweitzberg in the community Hochburg-Ach as the third son of a linen weaver. Already his first teacher recognized the musical talent of the child, in 1805 the young Gruber began an apprenticeship at Stadtpfarrorganisten Georg Hartdoblerim near Burghausen. A year later he completed his teacher training in Ried im Innkreis, and after the examinations he was appointed in November 1807 to the teacher of Arnsdorf. In the hope of receiving the teaching post in Oberndorf, Gruber took over the cantor and organist service in Arnsdorf from 1816 in the church of St. Nicholas in Oberndorf and, as a result, often combined activities as a teacher, organist and tradesman. In 1829 Gruber finally became a teacher in nearby Berndorf and in 1833 Stadtpfarr-Chorregent in Hallein. His private life was marked by several marriages and a total of twelve biological children, of which, however, only four were born. In 1863, Gruber died, respectable and relatively wealthy, inHallein.Sae reputation owes to Franz Xaver Gruber admittedly the setting of the now-widely known Christmas poem of the auxiliary priest Joseph Mohr, "Silent Night, Holy Night", he on 24 December 1818 in the Church of St. Nicholas in Oberndorf for the first time publicly gave the best. The simple Christmas song spread in the following years in no time in the whole of Europe, 1839 it was made by the so-called "Rainer singers" for the first time in New York. - Today there are memorial places for Franz Xaver Grubere in several places, in Hallein and in Arnsdorf there is a Silent Night-Museum and inBurghaus the local main- and middle school bears the name of the famous Austrian composer.