Other composers who wrote works in the form of the Singmesse include Leopold Mozart and Franz Xaver Gruber.
Franz Xaver Gruber (1787–1863), Austrian composer, organist, and creator of the Christmas carol Silent Night
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Franz Xaver Gruber, composer of the Silent Night Christmas carol, born November 25, 1787 in Unterweitzberg, Hochburg-Ach, died June 7, 1863 in Hallein.
The Innviertel is the birthplace of the physicist Anton Zeilinger, of Franz Xaver Gruber, the composer of the Silent Night Christmas carol, of the Schwanthaler family of Baroque sculptors, but also of the SS official Ernst Kaltenbrunner and the conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter.