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- The real von Trapp children were, in age descending order: Rupert, Agathe, Maria, Werner, Hedwig, Johanna, and Martina.
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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.
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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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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- 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.
Dec 21, 2020 · The ongoing debate around development and natural preservation in Vermont was alive and well in 1967 when Johannes von Trapp took down all signs advertising the Trapp Family Lodge.
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Jul 22, 2024 · Maria came to the von Trapp family in 1926 as a tutor for one of the children, Maria, who was recovering from scarlet fever, not as governess to all the children. Maria and Georg married in 1927, 11 years before the family left Austria, not right before the Nazi takeover of Austria.
Maria Augusta Kutschera (b. Jan. 26, 1905, Vienna—d. March 28, 1987, Morrisville, Vt., U.S.), the best-known member of the family, wrote The Story of the Trapp Family Singers (1949). She recounted her experience as an orphan and novitiate in a Benedictine convent in Salzburg.
