This post features “Silent Night” with a link to the solo guitar tab and the sheet music (chords, melody, and lyrics). All music transcriptions are available for download as PDFs.

Silent Night

On December 24, 1818, Joseph Mohr, a young priest in Mariapfarr (in Austria), brought a poem he had written a few years earlier to Franz Gruber, a school teacher, and church organist, in a nearby town.

Joseph was in need of a carol for worship and asked Franz to add music to the poem. Franz quickly wrote a melody to the words with guitar accompaniment. That night, on Christmas Eve, Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber performed, “Stille Nacht” (“Silent Night”), for the first time ever.

In the video below, I play a solo guitar arrangement (chord melody) of “Silent Night.”

Silent Night – Tab

The sheet music below includes tablature, standard notation, chord symbols, and chord diagrams.

Download the solo guitar tab for “Silent Night” (2 Pages) as a PDF.

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Silent Night – Sheet Music

The sheet music below is a lead sheet (chords, melody, and lyrics) for “Silent Night.”

Download the sheet music for “Silent Night” as a PDF.

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