Sixty years after “The Sound of Music” came out, the hills of Salzburg, Austria are still alive with the sound of music.

STOWE, Vt. (AP) — Maria von Trapp, a member of the musical family whose escape from Nazi-occupied Austria was the basis for “The Sound of Music,” has died, her brother said Saturday.

Maria von Trapp, the last surviving member of the seven original Trapp Family Singers — the Austrian family that inspired the 1965 film The Sound of Music --has died at 99 at her home in Vermont.

Maria von Trapp dies at 99 in Vermont. She was one of the original family singers. Her father, stepmother left Austria before WWII. Story made famous by "The Sound of Music" ...

Maria von Trapp, the last surviving member of the family music group that inspired The Sound of Music, died on Tuesday at the age of 99, the Associated Press reports.

Maria von Trapp, a member of the musical family whose escape from Nazi-occupied Austria was the basis for "The Sound of Music," has died, her brother said Saturday.

Earlier this year, an event happened that did not receive wide notice. The last of the Von Trapp Family Singers, the last of the children---the real ones---died.

“Maria had a wonderful life and while we will miss her, the memories of her will live on,” her half-brother, Johannes von Trapp, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive statement. He also thanked fans ...

The real-life Maria von Trapp “wasn’t always as sweet as the fictional Maria. She tended to erupt in angry outbursts consisting of yelling, throwing things and slamming doors.

Maria begins, and that's when the truth about Julie's yodeling comes out. As a result of this slight critique, we get to see the real Maria von Trapp yodel — the REAL Maria von Trapp — and it ...

Rosmarie Trapp, whose Austrian family the von Trapps was made famous in the musical and beloved movie “The Sound of Music,” has died. She died Friday at the age of 93 at a nursing home in ...

Maria von Trapp, last surviving member of the original Trapp Family Singers, the group made famous by "The Sound of Music," passed away at the age of 99. Singer Sofia von Trapp remembers her ...