The Story of the Trapp Family Singers - Couverture souple

Trapp, Maria Augusta

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 4871876322 ISBN 13 : 9784871876322

Editeur : Ishi Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The story of a remarkable singing family and of its devotion to an ideal. This is the adventurous story of one of the most distinguished musical families of the age, the Trapp Family Singers. It is told by one who knows it best, the head of the family, Baroness Maria Augusta von Trapp herself – now Mrs. Trapp, for she and her family have become American citizens. The story begins in Austria after the First World War, in which the baron distinguished himself as a submarine commander. A widower, he had five daughters, two sons, and no one to look after them; and from a neighboring convent he obtained as governess, a young student – Maria. The Baron was expected to marry a certain Princess Yvonne, but so impressed was he with Maria that he proposed to her instead, and they were married. In the dark days of the failure of the Austrian banks which inaugeated the world wide depression, the Baron lost most of his fortune. At that time they met Father Wasner, who has been their musical director ever since, and they started doing professionally, and with amazing success, what they had done previously for their own amusement. The book has much in it of the complexities of life of a large family, the arduous discipline of musical training, the amusing incidents of travel en masse. But The Story of the Trapp Family Singers is more than a dramatic personal story. It is specifically an American one, since it tells of a transportation from the Old World to the New.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Maria Augusta Kutschera Trapp Born: 26 January 1905 – Died: 28 March 1987 She was born aboard a train heading to a Vienna hospital coming from her parents' village in Tyrol, Austria. She was an orphan by her age seven. Graduated, State Teachers College, Vienna. Progressive Ed, degree 1923. She entered Nonnberg Abbey, Satzburg, Austria. She was a postulant intending to become a nun. Maria Trapp was dominating and bold. Her step children referred to her as a “force of nature.” She had been exposed to worldly ideas including socialism and atheism. She once wrote of Mary Martin’s and Julie Andrews’ performances that they “were too gentle-like, girls out of Bryn Mawr.” Died: Maria Trapp died of heart failure on 28 March 1987 in Morrisville Vermont, USA.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ishi Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 4871876322
• ISBN 13: 9784871876322
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Illustrateur: Trapp Agathe, Trapp Martina