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

Agathe von Trapp died of scarlet fever in 1922. Maria also suffered from the disease and needed to be tutored at home as a result. That teacher, Maria, would eventually marry Georg in 1927.

The Sound of Music tells the tale of the Von Trapp family singers, and while the film was based on a true story, there are ...

She died Tuesday. Maria von Trapp was the third-oldest child of Agathe Whitehead and Capt. Georg von Trapp. The couple had seven children: Rupert, Agathe, Maria, Werner, Hedwig, Johanna and Martina.

Not that the musical stuck strictly to reality. Maria and Georg DID marry, but years earlier than in the show. The musical changed the names of the seven children from von Trapp's first marriage ...

Maria was the last surviving member of the original seven children born to Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead. The family was immortalized in the musical and film “The Sound of ...

Agathe von Trapp died of scarlet fever in 1922. Maria also suffered from the disease and needed to be tutored at home as a result. That teacher, Maria, would eventually marry Georg in 1927.

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.

File-This July 25, 2008 file photo shows Maria von Trapp, daughter of Austrian Baron Georg von Trapp, smiling during a press conference at the Villa Trapp in Salzburg, Austria.

Maria von Trapp, the second-oldest daughter of Austrian Naval Capt. Georg Von Trapp and his first wife and portrayed as Louisa in the musical, was 99.

Georg von Trapp’s second wife, Maria Kutschera von Trapp, wrote a book titled “The Story of the Trapp Family Singers,” which sparked two German-made movies and “The Sound of Music.” ...