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     • Music was always part of the von Trapps' life, even when they weren't performing.
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   Was music a part of the von Trapps' life?

   • Music was always part of the von Trapps' life, even when they weren't performing. "I can remember times I'd be washing the pots and pans in the kitchen and my sister Hedwig had been cooking, and we'd start singing and harmonising, and then another family member would come and join us.

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   Where did the von Trapps go in the sound of music?

   • 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. Had they scaled the Alps in real life, however, the von Trapps would have crossed into Nazi Germany, not neutral Switzerland, which was approximately 200 miles away.

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   When did the von Trapp Family perform on a radio show?

   • The von Trapp family performs on a London radio show in December 1937. / Imagno/Getty Images In March 1965, the von Trapp family gathered in a New York theater for a special presentation of 20th Century Fox’s new film The Sound of Music, about their early life in Salzburg, Austria.

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   How did the Trapp Family become famous?

   • By then, the family was a singing sensation. The National Archives report that the von Trapps, also known as the Trapp Family Singers, had become famous for performing all over Europe and had even won first place in the Salzburg Music Festival in 1936 (just as they do in The Sound of Music). But the rise of the Nazis changed everything.

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   How did the von Trapp Family learn about Nazi Germany?

   • The von Trapp family learned that Nazi Germany had annexed Austria in March 1938 around the same time that they celebrated one of the children’s birthdays. By then, the family was a singing sensation.

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   How did the von Trapp children feel about the sound of music?

   • One of the disappointments the von Trapp children had about “The Sound of Music” was the portrayal of their father as a detached disciplinarian. While he did use a whistle with a distinctive sound for each child and dressed them in sailor suits, the captain did not make his children march or stand at attention.

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   Mar 1, 2015 · Johannes von Trapp with Julie Andrews who plays his mother, Maria, in the film Music was always part of the von Trapps' life, even when they weren't performing.

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Trapp_FamilyTrapp Family - Wikipedia

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   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.

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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.

7. allthatsinteresting.com › von-trapp-familyThe Von Trapp Family And The True Story Of 'The Sound Of Music'

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   Dec 10, 2022 · The National Archives report that the von Trapps, also known as the Trapp Family Singers, had become famous for performing all over Europe and had even won first place in the Salzburg Music Festival in 1936 (just as they do in The Sound of Music). But the rise of the Nazis changed everything.

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8. www.biography.com › movies-tv › real-von-trappThe Real von Trapp Family That Inspired ‘The Sound of Music’

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   Dec 1, 2023 · The musical von Trapp family fled Austria during the Nazi occupation in 1938 and later settled in Vermont. They inspired the 1965 movie ‘The Sound of Music.’

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   Mar 2, 2015 · The Von Trapp Family singers warm up before a performance in New York's Town Hall. The musical "The Sound of Music" was based on their life in Austria. December 5, 1938. Bettman/Corbis. Actress...

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    Mar 20, 2020 · In March 1965, the von Trapp family gathered in a New York theater for a special presentation of 20th Century Fox’s new film The Sound of Music, about their early life in Salzburg, Austria.