Maria von Trapp wrote a memoir titled “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers” that was published in 1949, two years after Georg’s death. They traveled to the United States where they became known as the Trapp Family Singers and, in 1941, they purchased a large farm in Vermont that is run today as the Trapp Family Lodge, after it was rebuilt in 1980 when the original lodge burned down. He wasn’t sure if she liked him but when the children asked her, she said she did, and they were married in 1927. Maria did leave an abbey in Salzburg to work as a governess for Captain Trapp and, after the first year, the children wanted her to stay and suggested he marry her.
Though events did not occur the way they did in the musical or the film, the Trapp Family were a real family from Austria, Captain Georg von Trapp being a retired naval officer who was widowed in 1924 with seven children to raise. “The Sound of Music” is based on the story of the real Trapp family. The film is about a young woman named Maria who leaves an Austrian convent to become the governess for the seven mischievous children of a widowed naval officer. The film was an adaptation of the stage musical originally composed by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
This year marks the 55th anniversary of “The Sound of Music” film which was first released in March 1965, directed and produced by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.
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