Sunday 23 February 2014

Maria von Trapp of Trapp Family Singers dies at 99

Her half-brother Johannes von Trapp said in a press statement: "She was a lovely woman who was one of the few truly good people.

"There wasn't a mean or miserable bone in her body. I think everyone who knew her would agree with that."

The Trapp Family Singers left Austria during World War II to seek asylum in the US, where they found much success.

Maria was the third-oldest of seven children in the von Trapp family. Her step-mother Maria Kutschera von Trapp immortalised the family's history in her memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers.

It was that book that inspired a German movie that was subsequently adapted by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II into a much-loved Sound of Music stage musical in 1959.

Sound of Music
© Rex Features / Moviestore Collection/Rex Features
A scene from the film version of The Sound of Music

Julie Andrews later starred in a classic film adaptation of The Sound of Music, directed by Robert Wise.

Carrie Underwood also recently appeared in NBC's television adaptation of The Sound of Music, which attracted record-high ratings.

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