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On Christmas Eve 1818, Father Joseph Mohr had a massive problem. The organ at his small church in Oberndorf, Austria had completely broken down. No music for midnight mass in just a few hours. In a panic, Mohr grabbed a poem he'd written two years earlier and rushed to the church organist, Franz Xaver Gruber, begging him to compose music for it. The catch? It had to be written for guitar since that's all they had left. Gruber composed the entire melody in about six hours. They performed it that night at midnight mass with Mohr singing and playing guitar while Gruber sang harmony. The congregation had never heard anything like it—church music was supposed to be grand and organ-heavy, not a simple folk tune on guitar. The song almost disappeared into obscurity. It only survived because an organ repairman heard it months later and took the sheet music with him. He showed it to traveling folk singers, who started performing it across Europe. "Silent Night" became the most recorded Christmas song in history—over 733 versions in 300+ languages—all because a church organ broke at the worst possible moment. That desperate guitar arrangement became more famous than any grand organ piece could have been. So every time you hear "Silent Night," you're hearing the result of a Christmas Eve panic attack that accidentally created perfection.