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.

Maria von Trapp, the last of the singing children portrayed in “The Sound of Music,” has died at 99 in Vermont.

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, 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 ...

Maria von Trapp was portrayed as Louisa in the film and musical. “The Sound of Music” was based loosely on a 1949 book by von Trapp’s second wife, also Maria von Trapp, who died in 1987.

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.

As a result of this slight critique, we get to see the real Maria von Trapp yodel — the REAL Maria von Trapp — and it's completely adorable.

The last member of the famed Von Trapp family, whose story was immortalized in the "Sound of Music," has died. Maria von Trapp, died Tuesday in Stowe Vermontt on Tuesday of natural causes.

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.

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.

In honor of the 60th anniversary of “The Sound of Music,” NBC’s Molly Hunter reports for TODAY from the iconic villa that the ...