Last Member Of Sound Of Music Family Dies

The Real Von Trapp Family

The Cast Of Sound Of Music.

The last surviving member of the Trapp Family Singers, the group whose story inspired The Sound of Music, has died at the age of 99, her family say. Maria von Trapp died at her home. Von Trapp and her family fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938 and ended up performing around the US. Their story eventually inspired the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music, and subsequent 1965 hit film. BBC News.