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Johannes von Trapp (born January 17, 1939) is an American Austrian singer and former member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the musical and movie The Sound of Music. He is the tenth and youngest child. As of September 2023, Johannes is the last surviving sibling of the von Trapp family. Biography
- The Real Maria Described Herself as “Horrid”
- The Number and Names of The Von Trapp Children Were Changed in The Movie
- The Real Family Wasn’T as Wealthy as Portrayed on screen
- The Von Trapps Were A Musical Household Well Before Maria Entered Their Lives
- Maria Was Hesitant About Marrying Captain Von Trapp
- The Real Von Trapp Family Didn’T Secretly Cross The Alps by Foot
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Maria Augusta Kutscherawas born in January 1905 and, after being orphaned at a young age, was reportedly sent to live with an abusive uncle. She attended teachers’ college where she discovered religion and converted to Catholicism before becoming a candidate for the novitiate in Salzburg. Portrayed on film by Julie Andrews as demure and self-effaci...
In 1926, Maria was sent from the convent to tutor only one of Captain von Trapp’s seven children from his first marriage. Georg’s second eldest daughter, Maria, had contracted scarlet fever—the same disease that took his first wife’s life four years prior—and could no longer travel the distance to and from school. Yes, one of Georg’s daughters was ...
Although money didn’t appear to be of concern to the family depicted in the movie, in real life, the fortunes of the von Trapp family had faltered during the global depression of the early 1930s to the extent that, at the time the film is set, most of the household servants had been dismissed and the family had begun taking in boarders. The lack of...
Both in real and reel life, the family singers won first place in the Salzburg Music Festival. But the sound of music was already well established within the household before Maria arrived. In a reversal of the stern, music-forbidding retired naval officer depicted in the film, the real Georg and his first wife encouraged song in their home years b...
Like in the movie, Maria and Georg were married only a year after the novice arrived as governess. Unlike the movie, they were actually married in 1927, more than a decade before fleeing Austria in 1938. Georg was 25 years older than Maria, and the match wasn’t love at first sight. Although Georg had fallen for Maria and asked her to stay with him ...
The family’s exit from Austria under Nazi occupation was also given a glossy Hollywood treatment, depicting the von Trapps as having to cross the alps on foot to avoid detection. In reality such a journey would have brought them directly into Germany, not Switzerland as in the film. “Don’t they know geography in Hollywood? Salzburg does not border ...
Learn about the true story of the von Trapp family, the Austrian singers who inspired The Sound of Music. Discover how the movie changed their names, numbers, wealth, and personalities.
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- 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.
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. The family achieved fame in their original singing career in their native Austria during the interwar period.
Feb 6, 2015 · 14 minute read. Portrait of Johannes von Trapp at the Trapp Family Lodge, alongside a field where music is performed in warmer weather. He is holding a portrait of his father and himself....
Dec 6, 2022 · In researching this article, I read Maria von Trapp's books, contemporary newspaper articles, and original documents, all of which clarified the difference between the von Trapps' real experiences and fictionalized accounts.
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Mar 1, 2015 · Another more hurtful change was the portrayal of Georg von Trapp. Far from being the distant rather domineering father of the Sound of Music, Johannes says he was "a very charming man,...
