O Tannenbaum
Some Christmas carols familiar in English are translations of German Christmas songs ("Weihnachtslieder"). Pastoral "Weihnachtslieder" are sometimes called "Hirtenlieder" (shepherd songs). Three well-known examples are "O Tannenbaum" ("O Christmas Tree"), from a German folksong arranged by Ernst Anschütz; "Silent Night" ("Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht"), by the Austrians Franz Xaver Gruber and Joseph Mohr; and "Still, still, still", an Austrian folksong also from the Salzburg region, based on an 1819 melody by Süss, with the original words, slightly changed over time and location, by G. Götsch.