!!!Gruber, Franz Xaver, geb. 1787

b. Unterweizberg (municipality of Hochburg-Ach, Upper Austria), Nov. 25, 1787, 
d. Hallein (Salzburg), June 7, 1863, elementary teacher in Arnsdorf 
and organ player in Oberndorf, later in Hallein. Composed the carol 
"Silent Night" ( "Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht!") in 1818. Monument in 
Oberndorf.

!Literature
J. Muelmann, F. X. Gruber, 1966.



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