A view in Oberndorf, in the Austrian state of Salzburg \u2014 birthplace of the Christmas carol \u201cSilent Night.\u201d\u00a0 This is the shrine that marks the site of the church in which it was first performed, in 1818.\u00a0 The original church was abandoned after repeated flooding from the adjacent Salzach River.
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Oberndorf is where Franz Xaver Gruber set Father Joseph Mohr\u2019s poem to music in 1818 and, thus, created the Christmas carol Stille Nacht<\/em> (\u201cSilent Night\u201d).\u00a0 Walking to the \u201cSilent Night\u201d monument or memorial, I noticed a small cannon ball about fifteen feet up on the wall of a house.\u00a0 Translated from the German, the inscription accompanying it read roughly as follows:\u00a0 \u201cMay the Triune God protect his house from this hostile French cannon ball.\u201d\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t quite read the date, but I thought that it read sometime in the very early nineteenth century.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Returning to Salzburg, our group had free time on their own.\u00a0 My wife and I spent our time sitting with cold drinks in the Hagenauerplatz no more than seventy-five feet in front of Mozart\u2019s Geburtshaus<\/em>, the house where he was born,, listening to a jazz quartet.\u00a0 Thereafter, our entire group had dinner while listening to instrumental and vocal music from, well, Mozart.\u00a0 But we just got home a few minutes ago, and it\u2019s very late.\u00a0 So I think that I\u2019ll have to postpone writing about that (and about other things) until ma\u00f1ana<\/em>, as they say around these parts.\u00a0 Not merely because I\u2019m tired but because we need to get up again in just a very few hours.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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