Weaver of song
By: by Mary Helene Jackson ; art by Leo Winstead
Contributors: Winstead, Leo, 1976- ill; Gruber, Franz Xaver, 1787-1863
Publisher: Clifton Carriage House Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780982571309
Subjects: Carols; Juvenile literature
Description: Recounts how Franz Xaver Gruber, an Austrian weaver's son who was the organist in the town of Oberndorf in 1818, composed the music to accompany a Christmas song written by the village priest, a tune that became famous as "Silent Night."