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, 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

Johannes 17 January 1939

• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16
• Chapter 17
• Chapter 18
• Chapter 19
• Chapter 20