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Agathe Gobertina von Trapp (née Whitehead; 14 June 1891 – 3 September 1922) was a British-Austrian heiress and aristocrat. She was the first wife of Georg Ritter von Trapp and the mother of seven children of the Trapp Family singers.
Agathe Johanna Erwina Gobertina von Trapp (12 March 1913 – 28 December 2010) was the eldest daughter of Georg von Trapp with his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp. She was also a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the 1959 musical play and 1965 film The Sound of Music.
Apr 1, 2023 · Biography. Agathe Gobertina (Whitehead) von Trapp was the first wife of Georg von Trapp, the patriarch of the Famous Trapp Family Sihgers. Agathe Whitehead was born on 14 June 1891 in Fiume in Austria-Hungary. She was the granddaughter of Baron Robert Whitehead (1823-1905), the wealthy British inventor of the torpedo.
- Female
- June 14, 1891
- Georg Johannes Ritter (Von Trapp) Von Trapp
- September 3, 1922
- Biography
- Musical Style and Repertoire
- Legacy
- Partial Discography
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History of the group
Georg von Trapp had seven children at the time of the death of his first wife, Agathe Whitehead, and in 1927 he married Maria Kutschera, who was twenty-five years his junior, and had three more children with her. Both parts of the family were musical, and by 1935 the family was singing at the local church in Aigen, where they made the acquaintance of a young priest, Dr Franz Wasner, who encouraged their musical progress and taught them sacred music to add to the folk songs, madrigals and ball...
Later lives
Three members of the group died while the group was still active, Georg in 1947 at age 67, and Martina, who died in childbirth in 1951 at age 30. At the time of its cessation in 1957, the group included a number of non-family members and "only Maria's iron will had kept the group together for so long." After the group's demise, Maria, Johannes, Rosmarie, and Maria Franziska went to New Guinea to do missionary work; later Maria returned to run the Trapp Family Lodge for a number of years.[cita...
The real-life Trapp family were a respected Austrian singing group throughout their career. However, their style was a world away from the Rodgers and Hammerstein-created, crowd-pleasing popular numbers as later included in the musical and film versions of their lives. Many of their studio recordings survive and have been reproduced as contemporary...
Five grandchildren of Werner von Trapp (called "Kurt" in the film), great-grandchildren of Georg and step great-grandchildren of Maria, formed the singing group "The von Trapps." They recorded five albums in a modern style between 2001 and 2016 before disbanding.
78 recordings
1. Trapp Family Choir: Folk Songs of Central Europe– Victor (Dr. Franz Wasner, conductor) (78 rpm set, 5 records): 2. https://archive.org/details/78rpm?query=Trapp+family
LP releases
1. An Evening of Folk Songs with the Trapp Family Singers– Decca DL 9793 2. Christmas with the Trapp Family Singers– Deutsche Grammophon, 1953 3. The Best of the Trapp Family Singers– Decca, 1960 4. The Sound of MusicSung and Played by Members of the Famous Trapp Family Singers and Chorus – RCA, LSP-2277, 1960 5. The Original Trapp Family Choir: The Sound of Folk Music of Many Lands– CAS904eLP33 1965 (compilation)
CD releases
1. The Sound of Christmas– Delta Distribution / Laserlight, 1992 2. JourneyJasmine (2 CDs) 3. One VoiceJasmine (2 CDs) 4. Original Trapp Family Singers
Maria von Trapp interview on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs, 29 December 1983Jan 4, 2011 · She was one of seven children born to the aristocrat Captain Georg von Trapp and his wife, Agathe Whitehead, the granddaughter of Robert Whitehead, the inventor of the torpedo; they married...
Agathe had settled into her role as wife of ‘Lieutenant von Trapp’ and mother of two lively toddlers. She managed their large household with grace and kindness. Being parents was their greatest joy.
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Three more von Trapp children with Georg's second wife Maria Augusta Kutschera: Baroness * Rosmarie von Trapp (1929-2022), Baroness * Eleonore von Trapp (1931-2021) and Baron * Johannes von Trapp (b. 1939).
