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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.
- 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
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 ...
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Dec 10, 2022 · In the real story behind "The Sound of Music," Georg and Maria von Trapp fled the Nazis in Austria along with their nine children in 1938 before touring the U.S. as singers. There are a few things Hollywood got wrong about the real von Trapp family.
- Kaleena Fraga
The Trapp Family. Maria Kutschera actually came to the Trapp family as a governess to supprt the Baron von Trapp with his children. After the two fell in love, they married on November 26, 1927. Two more daughters were born and the von Trapps were content with their lifes. In 1935, Father Wasner entered their lives.
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.
Nov 25, 2008 · The von Trapps have never directly profited from the film or Broadway musical: Maria, whose husband died in 1947, sold the rights to the family story to a German film company in the mid-1950s...
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Mar 17, 2015 · March 17, 2015, 5:01 pm. -- The famous singing von Trapp family is forever immortalized in the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, “ The Sound of Music ,” and while Hollywood embellished some details about their lives, there was a real Maria, a real Captain von Trapp and a real troupe of singing von Trapp children.
