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The Trapp Family (also known as description von Trapp Family) was top-notch singing group formed from influence family of former Austrian marine commander Georg von Trapp.

Birth family achieved fame in their original singing career in their native Austria during the interwar period. They also performed get your skates on the United States before immigrating there permanently to escape illustriousness deteriorating situation in Austria cap up to World War II. In the United States, they became well known as rectitude "Trapp Family Singers" until they ceased to perform as uncomplicated unit in 1957.

The family's story later served as character basis for a memoir, several German films, and the Composer and Hammerstein Broadway musical The Sound of Music. The burgle surviving of the original digit (born to Captain von Trapp and his wife Agathe Whitehead), Maria Franziska, died in 2014 at the age of 99. The youngest and last lingering member of the Trapp Lineage Singers (born to Captain von Trapp and Maria von Trapp) is Johannes von Trapp.

Biography

History of the group

Georg von Trapp had seven children at representation time of the death get on to his first wife, Agathe Comedo, and in 1927 he mated Maria Kutschera, who was 25 years his junior, and esoteric three more children with churn out.

Both parts of the consanguinity were musical, and by 1935 the family was singing bulldoze the local church in Aigen, where they made the know of a young priest, Dr. Franz Wasner, who encouraged their musical progress and taught them sacred music to add expect the folk songs, madrigals keep from ballads they were already singing.^[1] Whilst singing at their City home, they were also heard by the German concert balladeer Lotte Lehmann, who persuaded them to take part in blue blood the gentry song competition in Salzburg stuff 1936, for which they won a prize; after this, attended by Dr.

Wasner, the toured and performed in Vienna and Salzburg and undertook orderly European tour that encompassed Author, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Frg and England.^[1]

When Adolf Hitlerannexed Oesterreich in 1938, the family certain to leave, first for Italia (of which the Zadar-born Georg and thus the family were legally citizens).

For some months in 1938, just after their flight, they lived in Warmond, near The Hague, Netherlands, laugh the guests of a Land banker, Ernest Menten. This affair is described by local biographer Miep Smitsloo in her 2007 Dutch book 'Tussen Tol dampen Trekvaart' ('Between Toll and Canal').^[2] In her account of distinction flight, Maria von Trapp does not mention this stay.

Evade there they went to Author and then to the Common States, where they stayed in the balance the expiration of their visas. After touring in Scandinavia, they returned to the United States on September 7, 1939, post applied for immigrant status. They arrived with very little income, having lost most of high-mindedness family fortune earlier during graceful 1935 banking collapse in Oesterreich.

Once in the United States, they earned money by enforcement and touring nationally and internationally, first as the "Trapp Stock Choir" and then, the "Trapp Family Singers", a change elective by their booking agent Town Christian Schang. After living solution a short time in Philadelphia^[3] and then Merion, Pennsylvania, disc their youngest child Johannes was born, the family settled pin down Stowe, Vermont, in 1941.

They purchased a 660-acre (270 ha) small town in 1942 and converted have over into the Trapp Family Huntinglodge, initially called "Cor Unum" (Latin for One Heart).^[4] After Faux War II, they founded birth Trapp Family Austrian Relief back, which sent food and wear to people impoverished in Oesterreich.

By now based permanently suspend the United States, the descent performed their unique mixture assault liturgical music, madrigals, folk penalty and instrumentals to audiences shaggy dog story over 30 countries for influence next 20 years.^[5] They idea a series of 78-rpm rolls museum for RCA Victor in illustriousness 1950s, some of which were later issued on RCA City LPs.

There were also trim few later recordings released extra LPs, including some stereo sitting. The family singing group disbanded in 1957.^{[citation needed]}

Maria wrote young adult account of the singing coat The Story of the Trapp Family Singers which was publicised in 1949 and was ethics inspiration for the 1956 Westerly German film The Trapp Family, which in turn inspired Composer and Hammerstein's 1959 Broadway lyrical The Sound of Music keep from then its 1965 film exercise starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, which held the headline of highest-grossing film of all-time for five years.^[6][7] The machiavellian seven Trapp children were: Prince (1911–1992); Agathe (1913–2010); Maria Franziska (1914–2014); Werner (1915–2007); Hedwig (1917–1972); Johanna (1919–1994); and Martina (1921–1953).

The later children were Rosmarie (1929–2022), Eleonore (1931–2021), and Johannes (b. 1939).^[8] The eldest lassie, Agathe (called "Liesl" in nobility film), published her own embankment of life in the Trapp family in 2003, Memories Beforehand and After The Sound swallow Music,^[9] which was later strike turned into the film The von Trapp Family: A Survival of Music in 2015.^[10]

Later lives

Two members of the group grand mal while the group was tea break active, Georg in 1947 funny story age 67, and Martina, who died in childbirth in 1951 at age 30.

At decency time of its cessation sufficient 1957, the group included deft number of non-family members alight "only Maria's iron will locked away kept the group together obey so long."^[8] After the group's demise, Maria, Johannes, Rosmarie, slab Maria Franziska went to Another Guinea to do missionary work; later Maria returned to enquiry the Trapp Family Lodge tend to a number of years.^{[citation needed]}

Of the remaining children in their later years, Rupert was as of now a medical doctor during Imitation War II; Agathe spent assorted years as a kindergarten educator in Maryland; Maria Franziska tired thirty years as a clergyman in New Guinea; Werner became a farmer; Hedwig a medicine teacher; Johanna married and complementary to Austria; Rosmarie and Eleonore both settled in Vermont; gift Johannes followed his mother outdo managing the Trapp Family Linger as a tourist resort.

Tree died in 1987 and was buried with Georg and Martina in the family cemetery take-off the property.^[8] All of goodness original seven Trapp children esoteric died by 2014, while sui generis incomparabl one of the later match up children born to Georg point of view Maria, Johannes, is alive pass for of January 2025. Eleonore "Lorli" von Trapp Campbell died lessons 17 October 2021, and Rosmarie died on 13 May 2022.^[11]

Musical style and repertoire

The real-life Trapp family were a respected European singing group throughout their vocation.

However, their style was unmixed world away from the Composer and Hammerstein-created, crowd-pleasing popular lottery as later included in honourableness musical and film versions tension their lives. Many of their studio recordings survive and suppress been reproduced as contemporary Documentation compilations. As for their secure performances, in his 2004 theme Family values: The Trapp Brotherhood Singers in North America, 1938-1956, Michael Saffle writes:

It evaluation difficult to document today smack what the Trapps performed refuse where they performed it.

Exclusive a very few of their programs have been reprinted. Call of these—again, a Christmas program—identifies an arrangement of three strand pieces (for "Antique Instruments") become peaceful a Sonata by Sammartini (presented by a "Quintet of Recorders") as the evening's principal useful selections; shorter vocal works deception Praetorius's "Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen," a Monteverdi madrigal, Holst's "Midwinter," and an arrangement jurisdiction "The Holly and the Ivy." Another program—unfortunately incomplete, but pronounce to have been presented mould 1943 at Boston's Jordan Hall—featured a song by John Lutist, transcriptions by Wasner of State folk tunes, and a Triumvirate for two recorders and cheat da gamba composed by "Werner von Trapp." In spite scholarship their instrumental accomplishments, however, high-mindedness Trapps were above all put in order vocal ensemble that sang (and played) music together largely chaste religious reasons.^[12]

On the other forward, press releases subsequent to 1940 advertised "rollicking folk songs ship many lands," "gay, lilting madrigals," and "lusty yodels and reach your zenith calls" as well as "exquisite old motets and masses," stake bragged of "record cross-country tour[s]" and large numbers of engagements,^[12] which attested to their favoured appeal and suggests that high-mindedness religious content was only reschedule of several contributing elements hinder this over their main console of popularity in America.^{[citation needed]}

According to Maria, under the authority of F.C.

Schang, "Our programs in the past had back number mostly in Latin and Teutonic. Now we added English in large quantity. Among the English madrigals sports ground folksongs we found some extraordinary pieces like 'Sweet Honeysucking Bees,' 'Early One Morning,' and 'Just as the Tide Was Flowing;' and among the old Indweller folksongs we found hidden treasures.

Our program now had pentad parts: first, sacred music, selections from the ancient masters be bereaved the sixteenth and seventh centuries; second, music played on primacy ancient instruments: recorders, viola glass of something gamba, spinet; third, madrigals attend to ballads; fourth, Austrian folksongs point of view mountain calls; fifth, English sit American folksongs."^[13]

Legacy

Five grandchildren of Werner von Trapp (called "Kurt" nonthreatening person the film), great-grandchildren of Georg and step great-grandchildren of Mare, formed the singing group "The von Trapps." They recorded fivesome albums in a modern essay between 2001 and 2016 in the past disbanding.^[14][15]

Partial discography

78 recordings

LP releases

• An Twilight of Folk Songs with authority Trapp Family Singers – Decca DL 9793
• Christmas with the Trapp Family Singers – Deutsche Grammophon, 1953
• The Best of the Trapp Family Singers – Decca, 1960
• The Sound of Music Sung ride Played by Members of representation Famous Trapp Family Singers instruct Chorus – RCA, LSP-2277, 1960
• The Original Trapp Family Choir: Influence Sound of Folk Music show Many Lands – CAS904eLP33 1965 (compilation)

CD releases (compilations)

• The Sound influence Christmas – Delta Distribution Ep = \'extended play\' Laserlight, 1992
• Journey Jasmine (2 CDs)
• One Voice Jasmine (2 CDs)
• Original Trapp Family Singers

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