Question

Write summary on "the sound of music"

Answer 1

. This was the case with the von Trapp family of The Sound of Music, which was both a 1959 musical play and a 1965 musical film. These works were based on two German films produced in 1956 and 1958 about the von Trapp family, which were themselves based on the real-life story of Maria von Trapp, published in 1949. However, there are many discrepancies between the musicals and reality.

The Real Life of Maria von Trapp

After finishing high school, Maria joined the Benedictine abbey of Nonnberg with the intent of becoming a nun. Monastic life was not a good match, and in 1926, she was sent to tutor the second daughter, a young girl bedridden with rheumatic fever, of widower Captain Georg von Trapp. Maria married the Captain the following year and became governess to his seven children. Maria and Georg also had three children together. Maria helped coach the children musically, and they went on to perform at festivals and on tour. When Hitler invaded Austria in 1938, the family escaped to Italy and eventually made their way to America. They used their singing skills to earn money and later bought a farm in Vermont, where they established a music camp in the early 1940s, which was later developed into a resor