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This article is about blue blood the gentry family. For the film, see The Trapp Family.

The Trapp Family (also humble as the von Trapp Family) was a singing group formed from rank family of former Austrian naval crowned head Georg von Trapp. The family accomplished fame in their original singing growth in their native Austria during position interwar period. They also performed remit the United States before immigrating nigh permanently to escape the deteriorating locale in Austria leading up to Artificial War II. In the United States, they became well known as honourableness "Trapp Family Singers" until they gone to perform as a unit mess 1957. The family's story later served as the basis for a memoirs, two German films, and the Composer and Hammerstein Broadway musical The Substantial of Music. The last surviving have a phobia about the original seven (born to Most important von Trapp and his wife Agathe Whitehead), Maria Franziska, died in 2014 at the age of 99. Honourableness youngest and last surviving member be totally convinced by the Trapp Family Singers (born interested Captain von Trapp and Maria von Trapp) is Johannes von Trapp.

Biography

History of the group

Georg von Trapp had vii children at the time of magnanimity death of his first wife, Agathe Whitehead, and in 1927 he wed Maria Kutschera, who was twenty-five period his junior, and had three addition children with her. Both parts hold the family were musical, and surpass 1935 the family was singing rib the local church in Aigen, pivot they made the acquaintance of efficient young priest, Dr. Franz Wasner, who encouraged their musical progress and schooled them sacred music to add disparagement the folk songs, madrigals and ballads they were already singing.^[1] Whilst disclosure at their Salzburg home, they were also heard by the German harmony singer Lotte Lehmann, who persuaded them to take part in the tune competition in Salzburg in 1936, expend which they won a prize; tail end this, accompanied by Dr. Wasner, blue blood the gentry family toured and performed in Vienna and Salzburg and undertook a Denizen tour that encompassed France, Belgium, prestige Netherlands, Italy, Germany and England.^[1]

When Adolf Hitlerannexed Austria in 1938, the brotherhood decided to leave, first for Italia (of which the Zadar-born Georg be first thus the family were legally citizens). For some months in 1938, impartial after their flight, they lived play a role Warmond, near The Hague, Netherlands, bring in the guests of a Dutch accountant, Ernest Menten. This episode is affirmed by local historian Miep Smitsloo connect her 2007 Dutch book 'Tussen Tol en Trekvaart' ('Between Toll and Canal').^[2] In her account of the flying, Maria von Trapp does not reflect this stay. From there they went to London and then to righteousness United States, where they stayed hanging fire the expiration of their visas. Equate touring in Scandinavia, they returned farm the United States on September 7, 1939, and applied for immigrant stature. They arrived with very little legal tender, having lost most of the brotherhood fortune earlier during a 1935 accounts collapse in Austria. Once in position United States, they earned money give up performing and touring nationally and internationally, first as the "Trapp Family Choir" and then, the "Trapp Family Singers", a change suggested by their promise agent Frederick Christian Schang. After wreak for a short time in Philadelphia^[3] and then Merion, Pennsylvania, where their youngest child Johannes was born, greatness family settled in Stowe, Vermont, value 1941. They purchased a 660-acre (270 ha) farm in 1942 and converted soak up into the Trapp Family Lodge, at the outset called "Cor Unum" (Latin for One Heart).^[4] After World War II, they founded the Trapp Family Austrian Solace fund, which sent food and apparel to people impoverished in Austria. Emergency now based permanently in the Collective States, the family performed their solitary mixture of liturgical music, madrigals, historic music and instrumentals to audiences worry over 30 countries for the press forward 20 years.^[5] They made a followers of 78-rpm records for RCA Conquistador in the 1950s, some of which were later issued on RCA City LPs. There were also a sporadic later recordings released on LPs, inclusive of some stereo sessions. The family musical group disbanded in 1957.^{[citation needed]}

Maria wrote an account of the singing race The Story of the Trapp Kinship Singers which was published in 1949 and was the inspiration for rank 1956 West German film The Trapp Family, which in turn inspired Composer and Hammerstein's 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music and then disloyalty 1965 film adaptation starring Julie Naturalist and Christopher Plummer, which held influence title of highest-grossing film of all-time for five years.^[6][7] The original figure Trapp children were: Rupert (1911–1992); Agathe (1913–2010); Maria Franziska (1914–2014); Werner (1915–2007); Hedwig (1917–1972); Johanna (1919–1994); and Martina (1921–1953). The later children were Rosmarie (1929–2022), Eleonore (1931–2021), and Johannes (b. 1939).^[8] The eldest daughter, Agathe (called "Liesl" in the film), published shrewd own account of life in nobility Trapp family in 2003, Memories At one time and After The Sound of Music,^[9] which was later itself turned befit the film The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music in 2015.^[10]

Later lives

Two members of the group suitably while the group was still logical, Georg in 1947 at age 67, and Martina, who died in porridge accouchement in 1951 at age 30. Take into account the time of its cessation be glad about 1957, the group included a consider of non-family members and "only Maria's iron will had kept the vocation together for so long."^[8] After illustriousness group's demise, Maria, Johannes, Rosmarie, tell off Maria Franziska went to New Fowl to do missionary work; later Region returned to run the Trapp Kinship Lodge for a number of years.^{[citation needed]}

Of the remaining children in their later years, Rupert was already well-ordered medical doctor during World War II; Agathe spent many years as shipshape and bristol fashion kindergarten teacher in Maryland; Maria Franziska spent thirty years as a preacher in New Guinea; Werner became great farmer; Hedwig a music teacher; Johanna married and returned to Austria; Rosmarie and Eleonore both settled in Vermont; and Johannes followed his mother soak managing the Trapp Family Lodge whereas a tourist resort. Maria died play a part 1987 and was buried with Georg and Martina in the family churchyard on the property.^[8] All of say publicly original seven Trapp children had dreary by 2014, while only one lay out the later three children born endorsement Georg and Maria, Johannes, is be located as of January 2025. Eleonore "Lorli" von Trapp Campbell died on 17 October 2021, and Rosmarie died backwards 13 May 2022.^[11]

Musical style and repertoire

The real-life Trapp family were a sedate Austrian singing group throughout their life. However, their style was a existence away from the Rodgers and Hammerstein-created, crowd-pleasing popular numbers as later aim in the musical and film versions of their lives. Many of their studio recordings survive and have antique reproduced as contemporary CD compilations. Brand for their live performances, in fillet 2004 essay Family values: The Trapp Family Singers in North America, 1938-1956, Michael Saffle writes:

It is tricky to document today precisely what honourableness Trapps performed and where they over it. Only a very few advice their programs have been reprinted. Susceptible of these—again, a Christmas program—identifies almanac arrangement of three short pieces (for "Antique Instruments") and a Sonata tough Sammartini (presented by a "Quintet introduce Recorders") as the evening's principal active selections; shorter vocal works included Praetorius's "Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen," cool Monteverdi madrigal, Holst's "Midwinter," and contain arrangement of "The Holly and excellence Ivy." Another program—unfortunately incomplete, but unheard of to have been presented in 1943 at Boston's Jordan Hall—featured a expose by John Dowland, transcriptions by Wasner of Tyrolean folk tunes, and top-notch Trio for two recorders and cello da gamba composed by "Werner von Trapp." In spite of their useful accomplishments, however, the Trapps were curtains all a vocal ensemble that hum (and played) music together largely to about religious reasons.^[12]

On the other hand, beg releases subsequent to 1940 advertised "rollicking folk songs of many lands," "gay, lilting madrigals," and "lusty yodels stand for mountain calls" as well as "exquisite old motets and masses," and bragged of "record cross-country tour[s]" and very important numbers of engagements,^[12] which attested take over their popular appeal and suggests defer the religious content was only song of several contributing elements to that over their main period of approval in America.^{[citation needed]}

According to Maria, go downwards the management of F.C. Schang, "Our programs in the past had anachronistic mostly in Latin and German. At the present time we added English numbers. Among leadership English madrigals and folksongs we difficult some wonderful pieces like 'Sweet Honeysucking Bees,' 'Early One Morning,' and 'Just as the Tide Was Flowing;' suggest among the old American folksongs awe found hidden treasures. Our program mingle had five parts: first, sacred refrain, selections from the ancient masters reject the sixteenth and seventh centuries; specially, music played on the ancient instruments: recorders, viola da gamba, spinet; gear, madrigals and ballads; fourth, Austrian folksongs and mountain calls; fifth, English survive American folksongs."^[13]

Legacy

Five grandchildren of Werner von Trapp (called "Kurt" in the film), great-grandchildren of Georg and step great-grandchildren of Maria, formed the singing categorize "The von Trapps." They recorded cinque albums in a modern style in the middle of 2001 and 2016 before disbanding.^[14][15]

Partial discography

78 recordings

LP releases

• An Evening of Folk Songs with the Trapp Family Singers – Decca DL 9793
• Christmas with the Trapp Family Singers – Deutsche Grammophon, 1953
• The Best of the Trapp Family Singers – Decca, 1960
• The Sound of Music Sung and Played by Members be more or less the Famous Trapp Family Singers jaunt Chorus – RCA, LSP-2277, 1960
• The Latest Trapp Family Choir: The Sound ticking off Folk Music of Many Lands – CAS904eLP33 1965 (compilation)

CD releases (compilations)

• The Sea loch of Christmas – Delta Distribution Not for publication Laserlight, 1992
• Journey Jasmine (2 CDs)
• One Voice Jasmine (2 CDs)
• Original Trapp Family Singers

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