Mail Online: The last surviving member of the real von Trapp family that inspired The Sound of Music has died. Maria Franziska, one of seven brothers and sisters from the famous family, passed away in her sleep aged 99 at
(CNN) — Maria von Trapp, the last of the singing children immortalized in the movie musical "The Sound of Music," died at her Vermont home of natural causes, her half-brother told CNN on Saturday. The native of Austria was 99 and lived in Stowe. She
It was the fact that she suffered from this that her father decided to hire Maria von Trapp to teach her and her brothers and sisters. "That of course then led to one of the most remarkable musical partnerships of the last century." von Trapp, maria
Maria Franziska von Trapp, the last surviving member of the family that inspired “The Sound of Music” has died at 99 years old at her home in Vermont.
Maria, 99, was the last surviving member of the Trapp Family Singers, those folks so grossly fictionalized in The Sound of Muzak (1965). They were art singers to be reckoned with–in this Youtube entry, they sing the gorgeous