![]() ![]() He also completely rebuilt the organ in Oberndorf in 1825, and in preparation for that contract Mauracher had delivered a cost estimate in January, 1824. It is documented that Mauracher visited Arnsdorf (and Gruber) in 1821 to repair the organ there. This was the organ builder Carl Mauracher. In his "Authentic Account" Gruber referred to a well-known Zillertaler who brought the song to the Tirol. ![]() ![]() With a date of July 22, 1819, the song found its way into a church songbook prepared by Blasius Wimmer, organist and teacher in Waidring (Tirol). Three years later in 1822, it was again the Rainer Singers who included "Silent Night!" in a performance at the Castle of Count Dönhoff (today "Bubenberg Castle," Fügen) on the occasion of a visit from Emporer Franz I of Austria and Tzar Alexander I of Russia. Already at Christmas, 1819, the original Rainer Family Singers reportedly sang the song in the parish church of Fügen (Zillertal). Exactly how and when the song made its way into Zillertal is not completely known. "Silent Night! Holy Night!" followed a path through the Zillertal Valley in Tirol, then to Europe, America and the rest of the world. "Silent Night!" experienced a breakthrough in its homeland of Salzburg only in 1866 when it was included in the "official" songbook of the church. Subsequently, Franz Gruber wrote a response with his "Authentic Account" in which he explained the origin of the song. ![]() Peter in Salzburg asking for clarification about the creators of the song. In the year 1854, there were apparently several investigations undertaken in Salzburg to ferret out who had actually created "Silent Night." In that year an inquiry was made by the Royal Prussian Court Chapel in Berlin to the Benedictine Monastery of St. The names of the creators of the song, however, had soon become forgotten. Some of the early known copies of the song include one by Johann Baptist Weindl (singer and director of the parish choir of the Salzburg Cathedral) dated 1822 one from Johann Schober (schoolteacher, unknown background) from the year 1843 one by Franz Neubauer (teacher, organist, church caretaker in Eugendorf) dated 1848/49 and one from Joseph Wernspacher (vicar in Forstau, 1836-1843). With no obvious motive or suspect, Poirot has less than a week to solve the crime and prevent more murders, if he is to escape from this nightmare scenario and get home in time for Christmas.The earliest copies of "Silent Night!" can be traced to the regions where the two creators lived and worked. Meanwhile, someone else-someone utterly ruthless-also has ideas about what ought to happen to Hercule Poirot… With no obvious motive or suspect, Poirot has less than a week to solve the crime and prevent more murders, if he is to escape from this nightmare scenario and get home in time for Christmas. Cynthia’s friend Arnold is soon to be admitted to that same hospital, and his wife is convinced he will be the killer’s next victim, though she refuses to explain why. The local constabulary’s investigation failed to uncover how someone could have entered a hospital room and killed him under the noses of the staff. Cynthia Catchpool, Edward’s mother, insists that Poirot stay with her in a crumbling mansion by the coast, so that they can all be together for the festive period while he solves the case.Īs Poirot digs into the mystery, he discovers that the murdered man was a retired post office master, and by all accounts very well-liked. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool are looking forward to a much-needed, restful Christmas holiday, when they are called upon to investigate the murder of a man in a Norfolk hospital ward. The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot-legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile-puts his little grey cells to work solving a baffling Christmas mystery. ![]()
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