The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
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The Story of the Trapp Family Singers   -     By: Maria von Trapp

 The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

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First The Sound of Music was a hit play, then an award-winning film. Here's the book that started it all! From her days in the convent and the family's escape from Nazi-occupied Austria to their rise to fame in America, Maria tells the remarkable story of the Trapp family. Includes black-and-white photos. 312 pages, softcover from Perennial.

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Title:  The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
By: Maria von Trapp
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 312
Vendor: HarperCollins
Dimensions: 8 X 5.31 (inches)
Weight: 9 ounces
ISBN: 0060005777
ISBN-13: 9780060005771
Stock No: WW05777

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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.

Author Bio

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.

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