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Article: `Sound of Music' Inspiration Maria von Trapp, 82, Dies
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- The Washington Post
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- March 29, 1987
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Maria von Trapp, the one-time convent novice whose marriage to an
irascible Austrian widower and their subsequent flight with 10
children from the Nazis over the Alps into Switzerland inspired the
fantastically popular "The Sound of Music," died last night in a
Vermont hospital, surrounded by members of her still-musical family.
She was 82.
"Her heart stopped beating" shortly after 7:30 p.m., according to
Johannes von Trapp, the youngest of the 10 children Maria and Baron
Georg von Trapp led out of Austria in 1938. Johannes is manager of
the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vt., where the family settled more
than 40 years ago.
Maria von Trapp had been in critical condition in a nearby ...
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