Maria Agatha Franziska Gobertina von Trapp, whose family inspired the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The Sound of Music,” died on Saturday. She was 99 years old.

Von Trapp’s help was not well received by those on the set of The Sound of Music, especially director Robert Wise. In the retrospective documentary My Favorite Things: Julie Andrews Remembers ...

Though The Sound of Music is based on a real family, some parts of the story were sensationalized in order to tell a more compelling story on screen.

Rosmarie Trapp — the eldest child of famed Captain Georg Johannes von Trapp and Maria Augusta (Kutschera) von Trapp, who inspired “The Sound of Music” — has died at age 93.

The von Trapp family appreciated the art of the beloved Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, said Sam von Trapp, the grandson of Maria and Baron Georg von Trapp, who now runs the lodge.

Maria von Trapp: nun, singer, mother, refugee... and the inspiration for The Sound of Music. The life of von Trapp was heroic, shocking, tragic, and almost unbelievable. It seems fairly safe to ...

However, in real life, the von Trapps were a singing group before Maria von Trapp came into their lives. What the movie did get right was that the von Trapps did win the Salzburg Music Festival.

Photos from AH: Hot shots of country cutie Carrie Underwood! The live three-hour telecast of “The Sound of Music” will air during the holiday season in 2013.

Maria von Trapp’s art is less studied. Most of the abstract landscapes in the exhibit were created during her missionary days in the 1960s.

Some of the former von Trapp child actors reunited to witness Julie Andrews, who played Maria von Trapp in the iconic film, receive a major award from the American Film Institute.

How do you solve a problem like Maria? You hold an art benefit Von Trapp sisters aid Harford needy By PUBLISHED: September 20, 1992 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: September 29, 2021 at 7:36 p.m.