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  .p19 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_von_Trapp | Joanna 1919 ]] , [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martina_von_Trapp | Martina 1921 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_von_Trapp | Hedwig 1917 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathe_von_Trapp | Agathe 1913 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_von_Trapp | Werner 1915 ]],[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_von_Trapp | Rupert 1911 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Franziska_von_Trapp | Maria ]]   .p19 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_von_Trapp | Rupert 1911 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathe_von_Trapp | Agathe 1913 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Franziska_von_Trapp | Maria 1914 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_von_Trapp | Werner 1915 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_von_Trapp | Hedwig 1917 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_von_Trapp | Joanna 1919 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martina_von_Trapp | Martina 1921 ]]
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  ,p29 religion, grammar, composition, literature, history, geography, physics, botany, French, geometry, algebra, Latin PLUS drwing, needlework, and music theory   .p29 religion, grammar, composition, literature, history, geography, physics, botany, French, geometry, algebra, Latin PLUS drwing, needlework, and music theory
  .p34 guitar and singing
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  .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
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  .p59 abby council decides Maria should wed Captain p61 11/26/1927
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  .p66 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrove_Tuesday | ''Fasching Dienstag'' ]] party
  .p68 Baron (heavy smoker) gives up smoking for Lent much about Easter season
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  .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
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    .p85 Peter obsessed with ''Handbook of Camping''
  .p87 Camping on Veruda off the shore of Istria and Dalmatia, owned by Signor Pauletta
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  .p92 Eleonore 14 May 1931
  .p93 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_fever | scarlet fever ]]
   . Group A streptococcal infection, [[ https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/group-strep-vaccine-research | no vaccine as of 2022 ]], kidney stones
  .p97 Lammer and Company is bankrupt
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  .p99 Rupert in Innsbruck medical college (190 km west)
  .p102 Easter 1935 Father Wasner
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  .p104 August 1936 meet [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Lehmann | Lotte Lehmann ]] enters Trapps in Festival group singing contest, which they win; Georg leaves embarrassed
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  .p108 Salzburg radio appearance, Austrian Chancellor [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Schuschnigg | 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
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 . Chapter 14

 . Chapter 15

 . Chapter 16

 . Chapter 17

 . Chapter 18

 . Chapter 19

 . Chapter 20
  .p113 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss | 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
  . [[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wellington+Hotel/@40.7646272,-73.9809554,20z/data=!4m8!3m7!1s0x89c258f8287cb0a9:0x9e23aee3b21720ff!5m2!4m1!1i2!8m2!3d40.7644845!4d-73.9805464 | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drinker | 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, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Normandie | ''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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Bergensfjord | 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
  .p179 [[ https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0005479,-75.2493911,3a,89.8y,262h,89.22t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sA5zSh3v9X_Sr76c3BSO2KQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DA5zSh3v9X_Sr76c3BSO2KQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D96.22725%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192 | 252 Merion Rd ''Merion Station PA 19066'' ]]
  .p180 F.C. Schang of Columbia Concerts inc.
  .p181 Mr. Coppicus, "no sex appeal"
  .p184 "Trapp Family Singers"
 . Part Two Chapter 9 Merion
  .p195 Handicrafts
 . Part Two Chapter 10 The Fly
  .p197 new repertoire, with American and English songs
  .p201 " ... I swallowed a fly"
  .p202 "you are all guests at a musical party"
 . Part Two Chapter 11 Stowe in Vermont
  .p203 success, second tour 96 concerts, third tour more than 100
  .p204 after 5 years, debts paid and money in the bank
  .p207 tourist house for 20 people in Stowe VT ... then the real estate agents
  .p213 Purchased property off [[ https://www.google.com/maps/@44.4746989,-72.7378491,3a,75y,225.47h,80.94t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sFJSDEC-n8le2a0IeA3YTqw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DFJSDEC-n8le2a0IeA3YTqw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D330.63284%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656 | Luce Hill Road ]]
 . Part Two Chapter 12 A New Chapter
  .p2
 . Part Two Chapter 13 The End of a Perfect Stay
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 . Part Two Chapter 14 THe New Hosue
  .p2
 . Part Two Chapter 15 Concerts in Wartime
  .p2
 . Part Two Chapter 16 Trapp Family Music Camp
  .p2
 . Part Two Chapter 17 Snapshots of the Camp
  .p2
 . Part Two Chapter 18 Trapp Family Austrian Relief, Inc.
  .p2
 . Part Two Chapter 19 A Letter
  .p2
 . Part Two Chapter 20 The Memorable Year
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 . Part Two Chapter 21 Cor Unum
  .p2

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
    • p195 Handicrafts
  • Part Two Chapter 10 The Fly
    • p197 new repertoire, with American and English songs
    • p201 " ... I swallowed a fly"
    • p202 "you are all guests at a musical party"
  • Part Two Chapter 11 Stowe in Vermont
    • p203 success, second tour 96 concerts, third tour more than 100
    • p204 after 5 years, debts paid and money in the bank
    • p207 tourist house for 20 people in Stowe VT ... then the real estate agents
    • p213 Purchased property off Luce Hill Road

  • Part Two Chapter 12 A New Chapter
    • p2
  • Part Two Chapter 13 The End of a Perfect Stay
    • p
  • Part Two Chapter 14 THe New Hosue
    • p2
  • Part Two Chapter 15 Concerts in Wartime
    • p2
  • Part Two Chapter 16 Trapp Family Music Camp
    • p2
  • Part Two Chapter 17 Snapshots of the Camp
    • p2
  • Part Two Chapter 18 Trapp Family Austrian Relief, Inc.
    • p2
  • Part Two Chapter 19 A Letter
    • p2
  • Part Two Chapter 20 The Memorable Year
    • p2
  • Part Two Chapter 21 Cor Unum
    • p2

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