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Artist: Cecilia Brauer
Description:
Taken from an 1845 manuscript by Franz Gruber, this arrangement is played on a Harmonium which is a very old Estey reed pump organ more than 100 years old.
To learn more about the artist, Cecilia Brauer, visit her website at http://www.gigmasters.com/armonica/ You can hear a slight difference in this original Franz Gruber melody from the "Zillertal" melody that most of us learned in school. It has much more of an Alpine sound which is appropriate for Austria -- "The Land of Silent Night."
(Thanks to Cecilia Brauer for permission to share her recording.)
Lyrics:
Silent night, Holy night, All is calm, All is bright, 'Round yon virgin, Mother and Child, Holy Infant so tender and mild. Sleep in heavenly peace! Sleep in heavenly peace! --- Sleep in heavenly peace! Sleep in heavenly peace! | 
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