Trapp

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, Joanna 1919 , Martina 1921, Hedwig 1917, Agathe 1913, Werner 1915, Maria

  • 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
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16
• Chapter 17
• Chapter 18
• Chapter 19
• Chapter 20