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

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.

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 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 sings with traditionally dressed children in front of her former home, Villa Trapp, in Salzburg, Austria, on July 24, 2008. Her family fled the Nazi regime to the United States in ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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, 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 ...

Mary Martin as Maria von Trapp in a publicity photo for The Sound of Music, the musical that debuted on Broadway on this day in 1959. Wikimedia Commons “The hills are alive…” you know the rest.

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 ...

Rosmarie Trapp, Whose Family Inspired ‘The Sound of Music,’ Dies at 93. The 1965 film was based loosely on a 1949 book by Maria von Trapp. Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead ...