The Sound of Music
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The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the 1949 book The Story of the Trapp Famil
Mary Martin and children in a publicity photo, 1959
The Sound of Music showing at the London Palladium in 2009
Maria von Trapp
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Maria Augusta von Trapp DHS, often styled as "Baroness", was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family. She wrote the memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, which was published in 1949 a
The Sound of Music
…lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. It is based on the 1949 book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. Set in Austria on the eve of the Anschluss in 1938, the musical tells the story of Maria, who takes a job as governess to a large family while she…
Von Trapp in 1948
Georg von Trapp on the bridge of submarine U-5 of the Austro-Hungarian Navy (1915)
Trapp Family Singers preparing for a concert in Boston in 1941. Maria is the third from left, in a dark suit.
Maria von Trapp's certificate of arrival at Niagara Falls, New York, on 30 December 1942