Maria von Trapp

Maria von Trapp was born Maria Kutschera in Austria on January 26, 1905. She died on March 28, 1987. She was the matron of the Trapp Family Singers, and the story of her family's inception and their escape from the Nazis during World War II is the inspiration for the musical The Sound of Music.

Books by Maria Augusta Trapp

• The Story of the Trapp Family Singers - Maria Augusta Trapp. Philadelphia, Lippincott 1949
• Around the Year with the Trapp Family - Maria Augusta Trapp. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1952 New York, Pantheon 1955
• A Family on Wheels: Further Adventures of the Trapp Family Singers - Maria Augusta Trapp with Ruth T. Murdoch. Philadelphia, Lippincott, c1959
• Yesterday, Today and Forever: The Religious Life of a Remarkable Family - Maria Augusta Trapp. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1952
• Maria - Maria von Trapp. Carol Stream, Ill., Creation House 1972
• Let Me Tell You About My Savior - Maria Von Trapp. Green Forest, AR : New Leaf Press, c2000