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
p12 Bus to Aigen and Trapp home, 3 km east (no water anywhere near back, Salzach river 600 meters downhill, across train tracks and many roads
p19 Rupert 1911, Agathe 1913, Maria 1914, Werner 1915, Hedwig 1917, Joanna 1919, Martina 1921
- p20 25 previous nurses, governesses, and teacher since mother died 4 years before
- p21 mountains: Untersberg, Tennengebirge, Hagengebirge, Staufen, Watzmann
- 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
p85 Peter obsessed with Handbook of Camping
- p87 Camping on Veruda off the shore of Istria and Dalmatia, owned by Signor Pauletta
- Chapter 9
- p92 Eleonore 14 May 1931
p93 scarlet fever
Group A streptococcal infection, no vaccine as of 2022, kidney stones
- p97 Lammer and Company is bankrupt
- 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
- 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
- Chapter 2
Hotel Wellington, Seventh Avenue at 56th street (still there, Carnegie Hall 1 block east)
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
Johannes 17 January 1939
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20