If you are looking at this photo, there are also good chances that you are listening to a tune you should be rather familiar with.
You might think I must be a fool for adding this music to a sunny, spring scene.

Well, let me explain.

This is the surprising find we stumbled across during our random walk over Hallein.
You see a flowered tomb on the right of the picture, but this is not a cemetery, it's just a common small street. The tomb is in front of the home where the person lived when he was alive. I have never seen a tomb placed in such unusual position. The person who made such a short trip from his abode in life to his abode in death is Franz Xaver Gruber. He was born in 1787 in an Austrian village, not far from Hallein, where he moved later and remained until his death in this yellow house.

Together with Joseph Mohr, a Catholic priest who wrote the original German lyrics, Gruber composed the music for the Christmas carol "Silent Night". On Christmas Eve of 1818, Mohr, an assistant pastor at St Nicholas, showed Gruber a six-stanza poem he had written in 1816. He asked Gruber to set the poem to music. The church organ had broken down so Gruber produced a melody with guitar arrangement for the poem. The two men sang "Stille Nacht" for the first time at Christmas Mass in St Nicholas Church while Mohr played guitar and the choir repeated the last two lines of each verse.

For reasons I don't know it was allowed to build his tomb in this place.

I'm sure nearly all of you have heard this Christmas carol at least once. Now you know who its author was and where he's buried.