What town has a monument to the Austrian primary school teacher who composed Stille Nacht?
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Silent-Night-Chapel The Silent Night Chapel (Stille-Nacht-Kapelle) is located in the town Oberndorf bei Salzburg in the Austrian province of Salzburg and is a monument to the Christmas carol "Silent Night" and its librettist, Joseph Mohr and composer, Franz Xaver Gruber. It stands in place of the former St. Nicholas Church, where on 24 December 1818 the Christmas carol was performed for the first time.
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Franz Xaver Gruber Franz Xaver Gruber (25 November 1787 – 7 June 1863), was an Austrian primary school teacher, church organist and composer in the village of Arnsdorf, who is best known for composing the music to "Stille Nacht" ("Silent Night").
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Josefstadt Josefstadt (] ) is the eighth district of Vienna (German: "8. Bezirk, Josefstadt"). It is near the center of Vienna and was established as a district in 1850, but borders changed later. Josefstadt is a heavily populated urban area with many workers and residential homes.
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Silent Night "Silent Night" (German: "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht" ) is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. It was declared an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2011. The song has been recorded by a large number of singers from every music genre. The version sung by Bing Crosby is the third best-selling single of all-time.
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Seitenstetten Seitenstetten is a town in the district of Amstetten in Lower Austria in Austria.
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Othmar Steinbauer Othmar Steinbauer (6 November 1895 - 5 September 1962) was an Austrian composer and music theorist. He progressed developments in twelve-tone composition (""Klangreihenmusik""). His own teachers included Joseph Marx, Anton von Webern, Arnold Schönberg and Josef Matthias Hauer.
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Marianne Gary-Schaffhauser Marianne Gary-Schaffhauser (19 July 1903 – 3 November 1992) was an Austrian composer. She was born in Vienna and studied voice and piano at the Vienna Academy, and composition with Alfred Uhl. Later she studied at Vienna University and graduated with a PhD. After completing her studies, she taught as a professor of German and history, but retired in 1948 to work as a composer.
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Käppele Käppele is the commonly used (colloquial) name for the church "Wallfahrtskirche Mariä Heimsuchung" (named for the Visitation of Mary) in Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany. It was built following plans by Balthasar Neumann in the mid-18th century in Rococo style. It serves as a pilgrimage church and until 2014 was attended to by members of the Capuchins.
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Sankt Pantaleon St. Pantaleon, also Sankt Pantaleon is a municipality in the district Braunau am Inn in Upper Austria, Austria. A monument was erected by the riverlet Moosach in memory of the slave workers engaged there in 1940/41 at the Weyer concentration camp.
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Oberwart Oberwart (   Hungarian: "Felsőőr" ; Croatian: "Gornja Borta" ) is a town in Burgenland in southeast Austria on the banks of the Pinka River, and the capital of the district of the same name. Oberwart is the cultural capital of the small ethnic Hungarian minority in Burgenland, living in the Upper Őrség or Wart microregion.
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Theater in der Josefstadt The Theater in der Josefstadt is a theater in Vienna in the eighth district of Josefstadt. It was founded in 1788 and is the oldest still performing theater in Vienna. It is often referred to colloquially as simply "Die Josefstadt".
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Imst Imst is a town in the Austrian federal state of Tyrol. It lies on the River Inn in western Tyrol, some 50 km west of Innsbruck and at an altitude of 828 m above sea level. With a current population (2013) of 9,552, Imst is the administrative centre of Imst District.
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Bezau Bezau is a town in the Bregenz Forest in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, part of the district of Bregenz. Bezau is a popular tourist destination around the year, due to its vicinity to ski resorts and hiking trails. Its picturesque church was built in 1906 and is devoted to St. Jodok. Another attraction is the museum of local history (Heimatmuseum), which is housed in a traditional wooden home. Bezau is the home community of ski jumper Toni Innauer.
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Šestak-Grotte Šestak-Grotte is a grotto in Vienna's district Favoriten in Austria, located on ("Laa's mountain"), next to Fachhochschule "Campus Wien" (address: Favoritenstraße 226). The grotto is reachable from tramway stop "Altes Landgut" of line 67 by a 5 min walking distance.
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Holbein-Gymnasium Augsburg The Holbein-Gymnasium is a natural scientific technological and lingual Gymnasium in Augsburg. It is located in Downtown Augsburg, and partly in the Old Town of Augsburg. Around 1,460 students are currently enrolled, being taught by approximately 130 teachers, which makes it the biggest of ten "gymnasiums" available in Augsburg. It was founded in 1833, and used as a secondary modern school in 1877.
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Osečná Osečná (] ; German: "Oschitz" )is a town in the Liberec District of the Liberec Region in the Czech Republic. Osečná lies on the Ploučnice River, which begins here. The river is 106 km long and flows into the Elbe at Děčín. It has 1075 inhabitants. It lies 15 kilometres from Liberec, on the foot of Ještěd. The town has a primary school, kindergarten, post office, several shops, hospital, and one of the oldest spas in Bohemia, Lázně Kundratice, which was founded in 1881. The moor is used here as a natural resource.
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Salzkotten Salzkotten is a town in the district of Paderborn, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The name Salzkotten (English: Salt cottage) is based on the former salt production, which gave Salzkotten its raison d'être. Salt was found in the salty springs around the city.
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Unterwart Unterwart or Alsóőr (German: "Unterwart" ; Hungarian: "Alsóőr" ; Croatian: "Dolnja Borta") is a village in Burgenland, Austria, in the district of Oberwart (Hun: "Felsőőr"). The village lies on the banks of the Pinka river, and it had a population of 964 in 2001 (without Eisenzicken only 724). Unterwart is one of only two settlements in Austria with an ethnic Hungarian majority. It is part of the Upper Őrség microregion, a small Hungarian language island together with Oberwart and Siget in der Wart ("Őrisziget").
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Sohland an der Spree Sohland an der Spree (Sorbian: "Załom") is a municipality in the district of Bautzen in Saxony in Germany near the border of the Czech Republic in a region called Lusatia. The river Spree flows through the village. Together with some smaller villages (Wehrsdorf, Taubenheim) it constitutes one of the biggest villages or communities with about 7,700 inhabitants. The most iconic monument of the village is the "Himmelsbrücke" (Heaven's Bridge); it is said that the bridge will break when someone tells a lie while standing on it.
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Krensdorf Krensdorf (Hungarian: "Tormafalu" , Croatian: "Kreništof" ) is a town in the district of Mattersburg in the Austrian state of Burgenland.
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Richard Rudolf Klein Richard Rudolf Klein (21 May 1921 in /Pfalz – 17 December 2011) was a German composer, musician and teacher. His compositional output is diverse, including nursery rhymes and music for children, choral music and hymns, incidental music, orchestral music as well as chamber music.
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Stiftsgymnasium Melk Stiftsgymnasium Melk (German: "Melk Abbey's gymnasium" ) is a Roman Catholic Benedictine-run gymnasium located in Melk, Austria. The gymnasium is located within and run by the well-known monastery Melk Abbey. Founded in the 12th century as a monastic school, it is also the oldest continuously operating school in present-day Austria.