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The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

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Availability:In StockContributor:Maria A. TrappPublish date:2001-12-24Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:William Morrow & CompanyISBN-13:9780060005771ISBN-10:60005777UPC:9780060005771Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Music, Historical, Entertainment & Performing ArtsSize:8.06 x 5.24 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.571Product ID:SC5QG66HX3

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as our own family history. But much about the real-life woman and her family was left untold.

Here, Baroness Maria Augusta Trapp tells in her own beautiful, simple words the extraordinary story of her romance with the baron, their escape from Nazi-occupied Austria, and their life in America.

Now with photographs from the original edition.

Language:EnglishPublisher:William Morrow & CompanyISBN-13:9780060005771ISBN-10:60005777UPC:9780060005771Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Music, Historical, Entertainment & Performing ArtsSize:8.06 x 5.24 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.571Product ID:SC5QG66HX3
Trapp, Maria A.: - Maria Augusta Kutschera was born on a train en route to Vienna just before midnight on January 26, 1905. Her mother died when she was only two years old and her father left her with an elderly cousin so that he could be free to travel. She experienced a lonely and very strict upbringing without any siblings or other children in the household. She was raised a socialist and an atheist and was actively cynical towards all religions. It was during a visit to a church to hear a Bach concert that her mind was changed when she heard the words of a well-known priest, Father Kronseder. Her meeting with him led to her entering a convent to become a nun. While she was devoted to the convent life, she was taken away from the outdoor activities she once thrived on. Her doctor, concerned that her health was failing, helped the nuns to decide to send Maria to the home of retied naval captain Georg Von Trapp, to be governess to his bedridden daughter. On November 26, 1927, Maria and Georg were married. The rest is history.
Publisher: William Morrow & Company

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Maria A. Trapp

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