Zoe Dsouza playing ' Silent Night ' (Lyrics: Joseph Mohr | Music: Franz Xaver Gruber ) 🎄 Welcome, to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄 Day 6 - December 6, 2025 : ' Silent Night ', or ‘ Stille Nacht ’ in the original German, was first performed on Christmas Eve 1818 at the Nikolauskirche in Oberndorf, Austria . The carol began as a poem written in 1816, by a young priest, Joseph Mohr , who later asked Franz Xaver Gruber , a local schoolteacher and