"All is calm, all is bright..." Where was "Silent Night" first performed?

On Christmas Eve 1818, everyone's favorite Christmas tune, "Silent Night," was first performed in St. Nikola Church in Oberndorf, Austria. Written and performed by schoolmaster, Franz Xaver Gruber, and church priest, Joseph Mohr, one legend claims that they wrote the song, because church mice nibbled through the church's organ, destroying it and requiring the church leaders to create their own non-instrumental Christmas tune.

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