Mauracher und Mohr

Josef Mohr, assistant pastor at Oberndorf wrote the poem Silent Night in 1816. In 1818, the song was to be performed for the first time with organ accompaniment at the Christmas mass in Oberndorf. That this did not happen and the people of Oberndorf had to be satisfied with a guitar accompaniment was due to the fact that the organ in Oberndorf was broken and the organ builder Karl Mauracher from Fügen, who was known far beyond the borders of the country at the time, was unable to repair the organ in time for the Christmas mass. When he then came to Oberndorf at a later date to repair the organ, he returned to Fügen with the sheet music of Silent Night. Since then, the song has been inseparably linked with Fügen and the Zillertal. Around the efforts of the extraordinary assistant pastor Josef Mohr to bring the talented and successful organ builder Karl Mauracher from Fügen to Oberndorf, there is a fictional correspondence that gives insight into the lives of two great personalities and lets us immerse ourselves in a time long gone.