Maria Von Trapp

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The Story of “The Sound of Music” is it True or Not? “The Sound of Music” was a remarkable (1965) film produced by Hollywood based on the true story of the von Trapp family singers. Julia Andrews played the prestigious role of Maria von Trapp, an Austrian governess who feel in love with the seven children of Baron Georg von Trapp, a retired World War I naval commander, who she later married. Although the movie was entailed on a true story, was the movie actually authenic to the European family, or was it a made up American version? Maria Agusta was an orphaned child who was taken in by an anti-Catholic man. When she turned eighteen she converted to Catholicism, where she found the Nonberg convent; this is where, and how it began. When she …show more content…

“Although the story told in The Sound of Music was accurate in its basic outlines, it differed from von Trapp’s actual experiences in important ways” (“Maria von Trapp” 1), as the “Sound of Music” played a true story of the von Trapp family, not all of the movie was accurate. Only a minimum of the real von Trapp families imformationale points, was used as their foundation, the rest was not correct, and more of a made up fairytale, like Hollywood movies were made out to be. “The children's clothes were not authentic, and the music was nothing like folksy madrigals sung by the real Von Trapps, so the criticism went” (“Maria wins over Austrians, Germans” 1). Even though the movie had an outline of the real life von Trapps, many things were changed to an American style. Props and clothing, wasn't anything like the families Austrian clothing. Much of the movie that was believed to be the original history of the family, was mostly turned out to be an …show more content…

Most people do not know that, “the real Maria didn’t teach the children to sing, that honour was taken by the young priest” (Sound of Msuic Fabulous Fact’s 2). The von Trapps were always singing around the house, and were soon later discovered by the priest to teach them even further. Compared to the movie, their father always let them sing around the house, and loved it; ‘they sing solely for their own enjoyment until opera singer Lotte Lehman hears them and persuades the family to enter an contest at the Salzburg Festival” (Maria Augusta von Trapp 2). This is where it all began when they sang for the first time at a festival concert, just like in the movie. “Edelweiss isn’t a traditional Austrian folk song. It was written by Rogers and Hammerstein for their Brodaway production” (Elrick 2), which is consdiered to be an interesting place to find the song. It was believed by many people that the song Edelweiss was a traditional German song, due to the fact that it was an German word, but that was not the case it was written for a play. The movie seemed so real, but the facts of the original von Trapp family tell another

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