Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht!

Christmas is rapidly approaching and you will not be surprised that #1 in the SHS list of Most covered songs you will find Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht! sung for the first time on Christmas Eve in 1818 by the authors of the song Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber in the Nikolaus-Kirche in Oberndorf in Austria. So this is almost exactly 200 years ago to date.

The work is sung all over the world and we have 25 adaptations in the SHS database in all the major languages except for Chines or Japanese......

So it is not surprising that we just added cover No. 2500 to the database, a Swedish Stilla natt sung by Stockholm's heartthrob Peter Jöback.

I just wonder how many covers we will have by Christmas Eve 2018...........

CarlDennis

Last edit: 2018-11-17 06:15:34 UTC by CarlDennis

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The work is sung all over the world and we have 25 adaptations in the SHS database in all the major languages except for Chines or Japanese......

CarlDennis

Should PG and I take that as a challenge?

We now have a Chinese adaptation at SHS!

平安夜 {Píng'ān yè}

More covers on the album: 聖誕快樂 / 敬賀新禧 ( 第十集 ) {Shèngdàn kuàilè / jìng hè xīnxǐ (dì shí jí)}

Great find, David, and I wanted to listen to this performance, but I am afraid the video link does not work here in The Netherlands....... What a shame!

Thom

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Great find, David, and I wanted to listen to this performance, but I am afraid the video link does not work here in The Netherlands....... What a shame!

Thom

Try now Thom. The video that was being used was apparently removed by the person who posted it so I deleted that one and added a different one.

Thanks for fixing that, Michael.

I just added 聖誕鈴聲 {Shèngdàn língshēng} to the above release.

きよしこの夜 {Kiyoshi kono yoru}

Let's see if I find more performances.

Very nice!

200th anniversary yesterday!!

Good to hear from you, Jens! After less than 200 years............

Ein gutes neues Jahr!

Thom