Maria augusta kutschera biography of barack
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Celebrating the von Trapp musicians who inspired the musical The Sound of Music
Photo: Courtesy of the von Trapp family
Children's Grandmother 'Gromi'
Maria Kutschera's Musical Tradition
Georg & Maria Augusta
In 1925, three years after Georg's first wife Agathe Gobertina Whitehead von Trapp passed away, Georg moved his family of seven children to Aigen, near Salzburg, Austria, for a fresh start. In 1926, Maria Augusta Kutschera was hired as a live-in-tutor for Georg's third child, Maria, who suffered from health issues that temporarily prevented her from attending school. In 1927, he married Maria Augusta Kutschera. At the time, his children ranged in age from 5 to 16: Rupert, Agathe, Maria, Werner, Hedwig, Johanna, and Martina. Later, Georg and Maria Kutschera von Trapp had three child
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Though based on the von Trapp family’s real-life story, The Sound of Music is not a documentary. In fact, the family had no control over the film’s content. As is often the case in the entertainment business, there are several differences between the facts and the film. Here’s a time line of the real history.
1880 Birth of Baron Georg von Trapp.
1905 Birth of Maria Augusta Kutschera.
1924 Maria becomes a candidate for the novitiate at Nonnberg Benedictine Convent in Salzburg, Austria.
1926 Maria is chosen by the Mother Abbess to help Baron von Trapp with his seven children and to tutor his daughter, also named Maria, who had contracted scarlet fever.
1927 Georg and Maria wed; Maria becomes stepmother to Rupert, Werner, Johanna, Agathe, Maria, Martina, and Hedwig von Trapp.
1929 Rosmarie von Trapp, Maria and the Baron’s first child, is born.
1931 Eleonore von Trapp, Maria and the Baron’s second child, is born.
1936 Maria and Monsignor Franz Wasner create
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Born in Vienna, Maria von Kutschera was living as a novice at the Benedictine Convent, Nonnberg Abbey, in Salzburg, when she was sent by her Mother Superior as a governess to the househould of Baron Georg Ritter von Trapp to look after his seven children, left motherless after the death of his wife. In 1927, Maria became the Baron’s wife and the Trapp family’s legend found its beginnings.
She wrote The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, which was published in 1949 and was the inspiration for the 1956 West German film The Trapp Family, which in turn inspired the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music and its 1965 bio version, writes LIAM POWER
Maria von Trapp was born in 1905 aboard a train heading for Vienna, capital of Austria. At the time she was named Maria Augusta Kutschera and was raised as an atheist. Through a misunderstanding she went as a teenager to a Palm Sunday service where a präst was speaking and, as she wrote, “the way this präst spoke