The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as our own family history. But much about the real-life woman and her family was left untold.Here, Baroness Maria Augusta Trapp tells in her own beautiful, simple words the extraordinary story of her romance with the baron, their escape from Nazi-occupied Austria, and their life in America.Now with photographs from the original edition.Author: Maria A. TrappPublisher: William Morrow & CompanyPublished: 12/24/2001Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.06h x 5.24w x 0.77dISBN: 9780060005771About the AuthorTrapp, Maria A.: - Maria Augusta Kutschera was born on a train en route to Vienna just before midnight on January 26, 1905. Her mother died when she was only two years old and her father left her with an elderly cousin so that he cou