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Maria Augusta von Trapp DHS ( née Kutschera; 26 January 1905 – 28 March 1987), often styled as “Baroness” [1] [2] [3], was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers.
It chronicles the life of Maria von Trapp, whose aspiration to become a nun gets derailed when she becomes a governess to the von Trapp children. Both the musical and...
Jul 16, 2020 · 1905-1987. Jump to: Who Was Maria von Trapp? Quick Facts. Early Life. Marriage and Musical Beginnings. American Success. The Sound of Music. Death. Who Was Maria von Trapp? Maria von Trapp...
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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.
- The von Trapps only had to cross the railroad tracks behind their villa—not the Alps—to escape the Nazis. The Trapp Family Singers on tour in 1940. In the climactic scene of “The Sound of Music,” the von Trapps flee Salzburg, Austria, under the cover of night and hike across the surrounding mountains to safety in Switzerland.
- The names and ages of the real von Trapp children were changed for the film. In actuality, the eldest von Trapp child was not 16-going-on-17-year-old Liesl, but Rupert, who was born in 1911 and a practicing physician by the time the family fled Austria in 1938.
- Maria worked as a tutor to one von Trapp child, not a governess to them all. In 1926, Georg von Trapp’s second-oldest daughter, Maria, contracted scarlet fever—the same disease that took the life of his first wife four years earlier—and could no longer walk the four miles to school.
- The von Trapps married more than a decade before they fled Austria. Unlike in the film when they wed as the Nazis were taking control of Austria in 1938, 47-year-old Georg von Trapp and 22-year-old Maria wed more than a decade earlier on November 26, 1927.
Rupert von Trapp. Agathe von Trapp. Maria Franziska von Trapp. Werner von Trapp. Hedwig von Trapp. Johanna von Trapp. Martina von Trapp. Rosmarie Trapp. The Trapp Family (also known as the von Trapp Family) was a singing group formed from the family of former Austrian naval commander Georg von Trapp.
Mar 2, 2015 · By Lily Rothman. March 2, 2015 9:00 AM EST. W hen the movie of The Sound of Music premiered 50 years ago, on Mar. 2, 1965, the world learned the story of would-be nun Maria, whose superiors, at...
