Captain love maker
The song was first performed on Christmas Eve 1818 at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, a village in the Austrian Empire on the Salzach river in present-day Austria. A young priest, Father Joseph Mohr, had come to Oberndorf the year before. He had already written the lyrics of the song in 1816. And over the course of the last 200 years the song has been performed to millions around the world by different artists,different instruments and arrangements. But...on the that first Christmas Eve, the melody for the song was written for.....guitar!: