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  1. Maria Augusta von Trapp DHS (née Kutschera; 26 January 1905 – 28 March 1987), often styled as “Baroness”, was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers.

  2. Learn how Maria von Trapp, a former nun and governess, married a baron and became a famous singer with her family. Discover the truth and the fiction of the musical and film adaptations of her life.

  3. Jul 16, 2020 · Learn about the life of Maria von Trapp, who left the convent to marry a baron and became a famous singer with her family. Discover how her memoir inspired the musical and film The Sound of Music, and how she died in 1987.

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    • The real Maria described herself as “horrid” Maria von Trapp. Maria Augusta Kutschera was born in January 1905 and, after being orphaned at a young age, was reportedly sent to live with an abusive uncle.
    • The number and names of the von Trapp children were changed in the movie. In 1926, Maria was sent from the convent to tutor only one of Captain von Trapp’s seven children from his first marriage.
    • The real family wasn’t as wealthy as portrayed on screen. Christopher Plummer as Captain Georg von Trapp sings to his children in The Sound of Music (1965).
    • The von Trapps were a musical household well before Maria entered their lives. The von Trapp family sings in a London radio show in December 1937. Both in real and reel life, the family singers won first place in the Salzburg Music Festival.
  4. Maria Agatha Franziska Gobertina von Trapp (28 September 1914 – 18 February 2014) was the second-oldest daughter of Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp. She was a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives inspired the musical and film The Sound of Music.

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  6. Feb 23, 2014 · The last surviving member of the Trapp Family Singers, the group whose story inspired The Sound of Music, has died at the age of 99, her family say. Maria von Trapp died at her home in...

  7. Mar 29, 1987 · Maria Augusta von Trapp, the guiding force behind a family of singers who won world reknown when their story was portrayed in the play and film ''The Sound of Music,'' died of heart failure...

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