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Name: The Sound of Music

Author: Maria Augusta von Trapp
Year: 1949
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Biographies, Non Fiction, Memoirs, History, Music, Classic, Historical fiction, War/Military

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ISBNs:
9780060005771
0060005777

Maria Augusta was sent as a young novice to look after the large family of the widowed Baron von Trapp. She brought with her little besides her guitar and the gift of happiness. With zest inherited from her native Tyrol, she quickly transformed the gloomy restraint of the house outside Salzburg into a place of bubbling musical activity centred round the festivals of the church year. The children became her close friends, and when the Baron fell in love with her she married him with the blessing of the convent.
Maria von Trapp's optimism and determination carried the family through many trials. When their fortunes crashed, the musical training she had given the children enabled them to earn their living on the concert platform. After a miraculous escape from Nazi-occupied Germany, she led them to the start of a new and outstandingly successful life in the U.S.A. But above all, this wonderful true story which gave rise to the musical, The Sound of Music and the film, The Trapp Family - is one of a close-knit family whose happiness and success were based on a joyous foundation of faith.