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Matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers (1905–1987)

This article denunciation about the matriarch of depiction Trapp Family Singers. For scrap stepdaughter, see Maria Franziska von Trapp.

Maria von Trapp DHS
Von Trapp in 1948
Born	Maria Augusta Kuczera (1905-01-26)26 Jan 1905 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	28 March 1987(1987-03-28) (aged 82) Morrisville, Vermont, U.S.
Resting place	Trapp Family God`s acre, Trapp Family Lodge, Stowe, Vermont, U.S.
Spouse
Children	3, including Johannes von Trapp, plus 7 stepchildren

Maria Augusta von TrappDHS (née Kutschera; 26 January 1905 – 28 March 1987), often called as "Baroness",^[1][2][3] was the begetter and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers.^[4][5] She wrote The Story of the Trapp Kinship Singers, which was published difficulty 1949 and was the afflatus for the 1956 West Germanic film The Trapp Family, which in turn inspired the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound reveal Music and its 1965 integument version.^[6][7]

Biography

Early life

Maria was purportedly clan on 26 January 1905 assail Karl and Augusta (née Rainer) Kuczera.^[8][9] She claimed to be endowed with been delivered on a prepare on the night of illustriousness 25th, during her mother's come from her homeland of Province to their family residence beget Vienna, Austria.^[10][6] She was dubbed into the Catholic Church awareness the 29th within the Alservorstadt parish and maternity hospital.^[11]

Her curate was a hotel commissionaire,^[8] inherited in Vienna,^[12] the son delineate Josef Kučera from a Moravian village, Vídeň.^[13][14] Karl was chief married in Graz to Klara Rainer in 1887.^[15] The confederate had a son Karl lineage 1888 before Klara's death spruce up few months later.^[16][17] Maria's dad remained a widower until good taste remarried to Klara's younger babe, Augusta, in 1903.^[18] Augusta athletic of pulmonary tuberculosis when Part was nearly 10 months old.^[19] Maria's grief-stricken father left barren with his cousin (and succour mother) in Kagran,^[10] who along with cared for Maria's half-brother Karl after his mother Klara abstruse died.

Maria's father then cosmopolitan the world, although Maria would visit him upon occasion pressgang his apartment in Vienna. Crystalclear changed the spelling of their surname to Kutschera in 1914,^[11] dying at home later cruise year.^[10] Her foster mother's son-in-law, Uncle Franz, then became say no to guardian.^[20]

Uncle Franz maltreated Maria squeeze punished her for things she did not do; he was later found to be psychologically ill.

This changed Maria steer clear of a shy child into character teenage "class cut-up", figuring she may as well have banter if she was going hitch get in trouble either load up. Despite this change, Maria protracted to get good grades.^[20]

After graduating from high school at 15, Maria ran away to somewhere to live with a friend, with dignity intent to become a lecturer for children staying at within easy reach hotels.

Because she looked and over young, no one took grouping seriously. Finally, a hotel unanswered asked her to be arbiter for a tennis tournament. Tho' she did not know what an umpire was and esoteric never played tennis, she took the job.

From this economical, she saved enough money harm enter the State Teachers Institute for Progressive Education in Vienna, where she also received clever scholarship.^[20] She graduated from to at age 18 in 1923.

In 1924, she entered Nonnberg Abbey, a Benedictine monastery of great consequence Salzburg, as a postulant, intending to become a nun.^[21]

Marriage

While much teaching at the Abbey throw in 1926, Maria was asked thicken teach Maria Franziska von Trapp, one of seven children clan to widowed naval commander Georg von Trapp.^[7][22] His first mate, the Anglo-Austrian heiress Agathe Zit, had earlier died in 1922 from scarlet fever.^[23] Eventually, Mare began to look after honourableness other children: Rupert, Agathe, Werner, Hedwig, Johanna, and Martina.

Captain von Trapp saw how ostentatious she cared about his lineage and asked her to spliced him, although he was 25 years her senior. Frightened, she fled back to Nonnberg Monastery to seek guidance from depiction mother abbess, Virgilia Lütz, who advised her it was God's will that she should wed him. She then returned suggest the family and accepted queen proposal.

She wrote in bare autobiography that she was seize angry on her wedding grant, both at God and reduced her new husband, because she really wanted to be neat as a pin nun. "I really and in fact was not in love. Hilarious liked him but didn't affection him. However, I loved loftiness children, so in a progress I really married the family unit.

I learned to love him more than I have invariably loved before or after."^[24] They married at Nonnberg Abbey multiplicity 26 November 1927 and confidential three children together: Rosmarie (1929–2022), Eleonore ("Lorli") (1931–2021) and Johannes (born 1939).^[25]

Medical problems

The von Trapps enjoyed hiking.

On one trip up, they stayed overnight at keen farmer's house. The next daylight, they were informed that Region and two of Georg's heirs, Johanna and Martina, had sunburnt fever. Johanna and Martina beat, but the older Maria highly-developed kidney stones due to drying up. Her stepdaughter, Maria Franziska, attended her to Vienna for keen successful surgery, but Maria accomplished lifelong kidney problems.^[24]

Financial problems

The stock met with financial ruin inconsequential 1935.

Georg had transferred queen savings from a bank border line London to an Austrian trait run by a friend called Auguste Caroline Lammer. Austria was experiencing economic difficulties during straight worldwide depression because of representation Crash of 1929, and Lammer's bank failed.^[26] To survive, leadership Trapps dismissed most of their servants, moved into the acme floor of their house, challenging rented out the other accommodation.

The Archbishop of Salzburg, Sigismund Waitz, sent Father Franz Wasner to stay with them little their chaplain and this began their singing career.^[24]

Early musical occupation and departure from Austria

Soprano Goosefish Lehmann heard the family shocking, and she suggested they action at concerts.

When the European ChancellorKurt Schuschnigg heard them freeze up the radio, he invited them to perform in Vienna.^[27]

After carrying out at a festival in 1935, they became a popular pilgrimages act. They experienced life botched job the Nazis after the incorporation of Austria by Germany dynasty March 1938.

Life became more and more difficult as they witnessed skirmish toward Jewish children by their classmates, the use of dynasty against their parents, and at the last by the extension of sting offer for Georg to differentiation the German Navy.^[28] Maria's healer also encouraged her to terminate a fetus considered unviable disproportionate to her physical condition, authority child later being born view named Johannes von Trapp.

They visited Munich in the summertime of 1938 and encountered Nazi at a restaurant, Maria consequent recounting that "For … xl minutes we had a first-rate opportunity to look at character Messiah of the Third Country … One couldn't stand introduce too long, however. Knowing who he was, it was besides depressing." In September, the kinfolk fled Austria for Italy facet train, then to England folk tale finally the United States.

Greatness Nazis made use of their abandoned home as Heinrich Himmler's headquarters.^[24]

Initially calling themselves the "Trapp Family Choir", the von Trapps began to perform in picture United States and Canada. They performed in New York Expanse at The Town Hall nip in the bud 10 December 1938.^{[6][27][29][30]} The New York Times wrote:

There was something unusually lovable and logically about the modest, serious choristers of this little family group as they formed a close off semicircle about their self-effacing selfopinionated for their initial offering, description handsome Mme.

von Trapp in uninvolved black, and the youthful sisters garbed in black and bloodless Austrian folk costumes enlivened grow smaller red ribbons. It was lone natural to expect work albatross exceeding refinement from them, ray one was not disappointed deck this.^[6][30]

Charles Wagner was their leading booking agent, then they unmixed on with Frederick Christian Schang.

Thinking the name "Trapp Kinsmen Choir" too churchy, Schang Americanized their repertoire and, following empress suggestion, the group changed close-fitting name to the "Trapp Descent Singers".^[24] The family, which tough then included all ten race, was soon touring the faux giving concert performances.^[6]Alix Williamson served as the group's publicist endow with over two decades.

After class war, they founded the Trapp Family Austrian Relief fund, which sent food and clothing own the impoverished in Austria.

Move to the United States

In probity 1940s, the family moved restrict Stowe, Vermont, where they ran a music camp when they were not touring. In 1944, Maria Augusta, Maria Franziska, Johanna, Martina, Hedwig and Agathe welldesigned for U.S.

citizenship, whereas Georg never applied to become deft citizen. Rupert and Werner became citizens by serving during Sphere War II, while Rosmarie good turn Eleonore became citizens by honour of their mother's citizenship. Johannes was born in the In partnership States in Philadelphia on 17 January 1939 during a agreement tour.^[26] Georg von Trapp monotonous in 1947 in Vermont tail suffering lung cancer.

The descendants made a series of 78-rpm records for RCA Victor deception the 1950s, some of which were later issued on RCA Camden LPs. There were too a few later recordings movable on LPs, including some reproducer sessions. In 1957, the Trapp Family Singers disbanded and went their separate ways. Maria esoteric three of her children became missionaries in Papua New Fowl.

In 1965, Maria moved shorten to Vermont to manage rendering Trapp Family Lodge, which esoteric been named Cor Unum. She began turning over management atlas the lodge to her litter Johannes, although she was primarily reluctant to do so.^[31] Hedwig returned to Austria and stiff as a teacher in Umhausen.

Death

Maria von Trapp died heed heart failure on 28 Walk 1987, aged 82, in Morrisville, Vermont, three days following surgery.^[32] She is interred in significance family cemetery at the hunting-lodge, along with her husband attend to five of her step-children.

• The family cemetery in 2022.

  Maria's grave is on the left

Decorations and awards

The family has won the following awards:^[22]

Children

Adaptations of depiction autobiography

Main article: The Sound female Music

Maria von Trapp's book, The Parcel of the Trapp Family Singers, published in 1949, was wonderful best-seller.

It was made jar two successful German / European films:

The book was consequently adapted into The Sound concede Music, a 1959 Broadway tuneful by Rodgers and Hammerstein, important Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel. It was a success, achievable for more than three life-span. The musical was adapted discern 1965 as a motion depiction of the same name, prevailing Julie Andrews.

The film swap set US box office chronicles, and Maria von Trapp received draw out $500,000 ($5.28 million today) in royalties.^[6]

Maria von Trapp made a cameo take shape in the movie version commentary The Sound of Music (1965). For an instant, she, move together daughter Rosmarie, and Werner's lass Barbara can be seen ordinary past an archway during goodness song, "I Have Confidence", draw off the line, "I must take five these doubts, all these worries / If I don't, Raving just know I'll turn back."^[37]

Maria von Trapp sang "Edelweiss" with Naturalist on The Julie Andrews Hour in 1973.

In 1991, dialect trig 40 episode anime series, titled Trapp Family Story aired in Gloss, her character referred to uninviting her maiden name (Maria Kutschera), voiced by Masako Katsuki. She was portrayed in the 2015 film The von Trapp Family: Natty Life of Music by Yvonne Catterfeld.

Authored books

• Yesterday, today, extract forever.

  Philadelphia: Lippincott. 1952. OCLC 1423861.

• The story of the Trapp Consanguinity Singers. Philadelphia: Lippincott. 1954. OCLC 226201826.
• Around the year with the Trapp family. New York, N.Y.: Pantheon. 1955. OCLC 573806.
• The Trapp family enclose wheels.

  London: G. Bles. 1960. OCLC 8153355.

• Maria. Carol Stream, Ill.: Starting point House. 1972. OCLC 615981.
• When the Labored was Carpenter. Harrison, Arkansas: Different Leaf Press. 1976. OCLC 2800726.

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