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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 .
Maria von Trapp's book, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, published in 1949, was a best-seller. It was made into two successful German / Austrian films: The Trapp Family (1956) The Trapp Family in America (1958)
Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp was born in Zara, Dalmatia, then a Crown Land of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Zadar, Croatia).His father, Fregattenkapitän August Johann [7] Trapp, was a naval officer who had been elevated to the Austrian nobility as Ritter von Trapp when he was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown Third Class.
The Trapp Family was released in West Germany on October 9, 1956, by Gloria Film and became a major success. [4] Two years later, Liebeneiner directed a sequel, The Trapp Family in America, and the two films soon became the most successful films in West Germany during the post-war years. [4] Their success extended throughout Europe and South ...
The Trapp Family; V. The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music; Lilian von Trapp; The von Trapps; W. Franz Wasner; Ernst Florian Winter
Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika (The Trapp Family in America), 1958 film; The Sound of Music, 1959 stage musical; also see other stage adaptations in this article; The Sound of Music, 1965 film starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer; Trapp Ikka Monogatari (Trapp Family Story), 1991 animated TV series, part of World Masterpiece Theater (The ...
Agathe Johanna Erwina Gobertina von Trapp (12 March 1913 – 28 December 2010) was the eldest daughter of Georg von Trapp with his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp. She was also a member of the Trapp Family Singers , whose lives were the inspiration for the 1959 musical play and 1965 film The Sound of Music .
The Von Trapps (formerly The Von Trapp Children) was a musical group made up of Sofia, Melanie, Amanda, and August (formerly Justin) von Trapp, descendants of the original Trapp Family Singers.