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The Story of the Trap Family Singers

Maria Augusta Trapp Beaverton 921 TRAPP FAMILY

Written 1949, NOT the "Sound of Music"

  • Born 26/01/1905 near Vienna, Died 28/03/1987 in Stowe, Vermont
  • Graduated teacher's college in Vienna in 1923
  • entered Nonnberg Abby (Benedictine monastery in Salzberg) in 1924
  • sent to teach Maria Franziska Trapp in 1926
  • married Captain Georg von Trapp 26/11/1927, 3 children Rosmarie 1919, Eleonore 1931, Johannes 1939
  • Chapter 0 - the wishing bell, Maria T. visits Tyrol in ~1934, wishes she too could become a writer after 40, rings a church's Wishing Bell
  • Chapter 1 - raced staircase, slid down bannister, whistled, climbed roof
  • Chapter 2
    • p23 Butler Hans, Baroness Mathilda, Resi cook, Mariandl kitchen maid, Poldi and Lisi housemaids, Pepi gardener, Franz farm
    • p25 Pola, Austrian Navy Yard, primitive submarine, exhaust gases, fixed periscope
    • p27 engagement to Princess Yvonne "soon"
  • Chapter 3
    • p29 religion, grammar, composition, literature, history, geography, physics, botany, French, geometry, algebra, Latin PLUS drwing, needlework, and music theory
    • p34 guitar and singing
  • Chapter 4
    • p37 Captain plays violin with children, "I didn't think I would ever play again" . . . Advent wreath
    • p42 4th century bishop St. Nikolaus vs devil Krampus p44 Morgen Kinder Wird's Was Geben p45 Holy Eve fast day

  • Chapter 5
    • p59 abby council decides Maria should wed Captain p61 11/26/1927
  • Chapter 6
    • p66 ''Fasching Dienstag'' party

    • p68 Baron (heavy smoker) gives up smoking for Lent much about Easter season
  • Chapter 7
    • p76 Salzberg (pop 35,000) Festival
    • p76 Iuvavum christianized 5th century, St Rupertus built Benedictine Abbey, niece Saint Erentrudis built Nonnberg
    • p78 Music festival, children reluctant tourguides for dozens of visitors
    • pregnant with Rosmarie Erentrudis, born 02/08/1929
  • Chapter 8
    • p85 Peter obsessed with Handbook of Camping

    • p87 Camping on Veruda off the shore of Istria and Dalmatia, owned by Signor Pauletta
  • Chapter 9
  • Chapter 10
    • p99 Rupert in Innsbruck medical college (190 km west)
    • p102 Easter 1935 Father Wasner
  • Chapter 11
    • p104 August 1936 meet Lotte Lehmann enters Trapps in Festival group singing contest, which they win; Georg leaves embarrassed

  • Chapter 12
    • p108 Salzburg radio appearance, Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg invites them to sing with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at a State diplomatic dinner

  • p109 Kleinen Musikvereinssaal ("Small music club hall") then Salzburg Music Festival
  • p111 December 1936 European concert tour, audience with Pope Pius XI
  • Chapter 13
    • p113 March 11, 1938 Anschluss

      • Schuschnigg arrested March 12, spent war in Sachsenhausen then Dachau.
    • p117 Georg given Nazi flag for house: "You know, I don't like the color. It's too loud. ..."
    • p119 pregnant with "Barbara", infected kidneys, doctor asks to abort
    • p121 "House of German Art & Restaurant", Hitler at next table

    • p122 Georg asked to run a Nazi submarine, p123 son Rupert asked to work at Vienna hospital p123 Family asked to sing at Hitler's birthday April 20
    • p125 Archbishop agrees they should take Father Wasner with them
  • Part Two Chapter 1
    • St. Georgen? Italy? Mountain Climbing in Tyrol (cover story)
    • p128 Navy pension in Italy paid passage to Britain, September 1938 ship American Farmer to US

  • Part Two Chapter 2 Mr Wagner
    • Hotel Wellington, Seventh Avenue at 56th street (still there, Carnegie Hall 1 block east)

    • Two youngest daughters at Ursuline Academy in the Bronx
    • padding to hide pregnancy
  • Part Two Chapter 3 Getting Settled
    • p140 Blue bus, 10 Choir members, 56 bags, first concert at Lafayette College in Easton, PA
    • p143 receptions the hardest (p144 Georg counts 611 handshakes)
    • p145 "P-lease, Bishop - scram."
    • p146 Schinken semmel - ham bread roll
    • p148 Mrs. Pessl, Town Hall Concert, paid $700
    • p150 Carleton Smith, house in Germantown PA, The Society of Friends
  • Part Two Chapter 4 Barbara
    • p152 Henry Drinker friend

    • p155 birth at home, only negro midwives, Maria afraid
    • p156 Johannes Georg 17 January 1939
  • Part Two Chapter 5 What Next?
    • Wagner contract expired, 18/40 concerts, visitor visa expires March 4, INS application denied
    • Danish impresario, first concert Copenhagen March 12, ''Normandie'' to Southampton

  • Part Two Chapter 6 In Sight of the Statue of Liberty
    • p165 female Trapps briefly visit Austria.
    • p165 "Met the men in St. Georgen south of the border" ???
    • p166 War, concerts cancelled, back to US on SS Bergensfjord, arrive October 7, 1939

    • p167 "I never want to leave again" - sent to Ellis Island for a few days, hearings
  • Part Two Chapter 7 Learning New Ways
    • p175 Embarrassing attitudes from the 1940s: "... old grandma rocking on the porch with the cutest little darky on her lap, or of that group of sturdy colored boys picking cotton or harvesting peanuts.

  • Part Two Chapter 8 The Miracle
  • Part Two Chapter 9 Merion
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  • Part Two Chapter 10 The Fly
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  • Part Two Chapter 11 Stowe in Vermont
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  • Part Two Chapter 12 A New Chapter
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  • Part Two Chapter 13 The End of a Perfect Stay
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  • Part Two Chapter 14 THe New Hosue
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  • Part Two Chapter 15 Concerts in Wartime
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  • Part Two Chapter 16 Trapp Family Music Camp
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  • Part Two Chapter 17 Snapshots of the Camp
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  • Part Two Chapter 18 Trapp Family Austrian Relief, Inc.
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  • Part Two Chapter 19 A Letter
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  • Part Two Chapter 20 The Memorable Year
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  • Part Two Chapter 21 Cor Unum
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