Holiest night

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The song “ Heiligste Nacht” is a Catholic hymn for the Christmas festival group .

Origin and variants

Holy Night at Verspoell, 1829

The text was printed for the first time in 1783 in the Salzburg hymn book as well as in the orphanage bookstore and in the Electoral Intelligence Compotoir in Munich . According to some information, it is said to be a " folk song " from Tyrol , which the folklorist Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann sees as "not very credible". The text has been combined with different melodies. One melody comes from the group of students around the composer Michael Haydn , who composed several choral movements around 1786 (MH 427; MH 461). Another appeared in 1793 in Christian Paul Müller's hymn book in Landshut . The minster clergyman Christoph Bernhard Verspoell took this melody into his minster hymn book from 1810; the melody is often wrongly attributed to Verspoell. Another one ( Friedrich Schmidt , 1897) dates from the second half of the 19th century. The melody attributed to Schmidt can be found slightly adapted in the Münster diocesan song book from 1868. The song is in the diocesan appendix Münster des Gotteslobes (2013) under the number 758 (1st and 2nd stanza), from Paderborn under the number 728 (1st, 2nd stanza) . and 4th stanza, the last two stanzas with textual modifications), in the diocesan annex Cologne and in the diocesan part of the dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Hamburg under the (same) number 734 (1st and 2nd stanza), in the common part of the dioceses Berlin , Dresden -Meißen , Erfurt , Görlitz and Magdeburg under the number 739 (1st and 2nd stanza), but is also known in other dioceses.

text

Christoph Bernhard Verspoell 1829 (1810)

1.

Holiest night! Holiest night!
Darkness gives way,
a light shines lovely and splendid from heaven down here .
Angels appear, proclaim peace,
peace to people, who is not happy?
Come, you Christians, come
quickly , see the shepherds, how hasty they are!
Hurry to David's city!
That God has promised,
lies there as a child, lies there as a child.

2.

Divine child! Divine child!
You, the godly fathers desires,
branch that sprouts from the root of Jesse.
Let yourself be embraced with heartfelt love,
greet us with heartfelt humility:
Divine Savior, head of Christendom,
What the fall of Adam robbed
us , give us your grace,
it wipes out the guilt of sin to
everyone who believes, everyone who believes.

3.

Consider sinners! Consider sinners!
Shivering from the cold, tied in diapers,
the mighty God lies here as a child.
Mustn't the sight wound your heart?
May you repay love with ridicule?
Hear how touching and tenderly he speaks:
Sinner, don't disdain love!
See how I love you
And you insult me!
You don't love me, you don't love me!

4th

Dear child! Dear child!
Repentance and contrition, I
give them up, I no longer give room to delusions.
Jesus, I love you; o when I have you,
I have the best, the divine treasure.
Apart from you, nothing should please me anymore;
For I desire to be united
only with you, divine one!
You are my God and Lord.
And I am yours and I am yours

melody

{\ key f \ major \ time 3/4 \ small \ repeat volta 2 {f'4 c'4 a'4 f'2 r4} \ repeat volta 2 {c''4 a'4 bes'4 c '' 4 a'4 bes'4 c''4 bes'4 a'4 a'4 g'4 r4 \ override Score.BarNumber # 'transparent = ## t \ override Staff.Clef #' break-visibility = ## ( #f #f #f) g'4 e'4 f'4 g'4 e'4 g'4 f'4 e'4 d'4 c'2 r4} f'4 f'8 (c'8) a'4 f'4 f'8 ([c'8]) f'8 ([a'8]) c''4 c''8 (a'8) d''4 c''2 r4 bes' 4 c''8 ([bes'8]) a'8 (g'8) a'4 a'8 (g'8) f'4 g'4 g'8 ([f'8]) g'8 (a'8) f'2 r4 \ repeat volta 2 {c''8 (d''8) c''8 ([bes'8]) a'8 ([g'8]) f'4 a ' 8 (f'8) c'4} \ repeat volta 2 {g'4 g'8 ([f'8]) g'8 (a'8) f'2 r4}} \ addlyrics {\ small \ set stanza = # "1." \ Repeat volta 2 {Holy night! } << {\ small Darkness softens, it shines here - never - the lovely and splendid light from heaven; } \ new Lyrics {\ small angels appear, proclaim the peace, peace the people; who is not happy? } >> Come, you Christians, come and go! See the shepherds how quick they are! << {Hurry to Davids City! } \ new Lyrics {\ small whom God has forsaken} >> \ repeat volta 2 {\ small lies there as a child. }}

Music: with Christian Paul Müller, Landshut 1793; reprinted by Christoph Bernhard Verspoell, Münster 1810.

literature

Web links

Commons : Most Holy Night  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Hartmann, Hyacinth Abele (Ed.): Volkslieder, collected in Bavaria, Tyrol and Salzburg by August Hartmann. With many popular tunes recorded by Hyacinth Abele. 1st volume: Popular Christmas carols. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1884, p. 134 ff. Quoted from: Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann: Das Buch der Weihnachtslieder. 12th edition. Schott, Mainz 2008, ISBN 978-3-254-08213-8 , p. 226 ff.
  2. ^ Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann: The book of Christmas carols. 12th edition. Schott, Mainz 2008, ISBN 978-3-254-08213-8 , p. 226 ff.
  3. ↑ Armin Kirchner (Hrsg.): Chorbuch Mozart - Haydn for choir of equal voices a cappella or with keyboard instrument. Carus, Stuttgart 2005, ISMN M-007-07463-0, p. 36 f. (MH 427).
  4. ↑ Klaus Brecht, Klaus H. Weigele (Ed.): Christmas songs. Choir book four-part. Carus, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-89948-172-3 , p. 87 (MH 461).
  5. ^ Ernst Hintermaier: The "Christmas carol" in the work of Johann Michael Haydn and his group of students. Inventory - Impact. In: Thomas Hochradner, Gerhard Walterskirchen (ed.): 175 years of “Silent Night! Holy Night! ”Symposium report (= publications on Salzburg's music history 5). Selke, Salzburg 1994, ISBN 3-901353-09-7 , pp. 30-40.
  6. ↑ Arnold Blöchl: Melodiarium to Wilhelm Paillers Christmas and Krippenlieder collection (= Corpus musicae popularis Austriacae: folk music band in Upper Austria. 13). Böhlau, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-205-99123-0 , pp. 371–373 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  7. ↑ a b Chants at Roman Catholic services, with attached prayer book , ed. by CB Verspoell, Aschendorff, Münster 1829: p. 16 , p. 17 .
  8. ↑ Münster diocesan hymn 1932.