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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Maria von Trapp, Selma Kurz, Leonie Rysanek, Maria Cebotari, Lotte Lenya, Elfi von Dassanowsky, Christina Sturmer, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Anja Steinlechner, Marie Wilt, Hilde Gueden, Emma Juch, Gilla, Luttenberger*Klug, Saint Lu, Anna Gottlieb, Helga Dernesch, Anna von Mildenburg, Nadine Beiler, Henrietta Treffz, Sena Jurinac, Soap&Skin, Sophie Weber, Angelika Kirchschlager, Gretl Schorg, Amalie Materna, Melanie Kurt, Elfi Graf, Fawni, Caroline Vasicek, Madita, Lolita, Wilma Lipp, Marianne Mendt, MisSiss, Graciela Araya, Sandra Schleret, Ira Malaniuk, Anita, Simone Stelzer, Fritzi Massary, Bobbie Singer, Lizzi Waldmuller, Zeebee, Martina Astner, Adelina Stehle, Petra Frey, Maria Reining, Timna Brauer, Lillie Claus, Elisabeth von Magnus, Caroline von Gomperz-Bettelheim, Lola Beeth, Marie Fillunger, Gertrude Grob-Prandl, Martha Schlamme, Valerie Sajdik, Caroline Unger, Tamee Harrison, Hildegard Ranczak, Maria Anna Braunhofer, Hilde Konetzni, Gabriele Fontana, Irene von Fladung, Emmy Loose, Natascha Hagen, Charlotte Eisler, Eleonore Schwarz, Marianne Zoff, Dagmar Koller, Christina Simon, Caterina Cavalieri, Hermine Kittel, Thisha, Gisburg, Elisabeth Schwarz. Excerpt: Maria Augusta von Trapp (26 January 1905 - 28 March 1987), also known as Baroness Maria von Trapp, was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. Her story served as the inspiration for a 1956 German film that in turn inspired the Broadway musical The Sound of Music. She was born on 26 January 1905 aboard a train heading from her parents' village in Tyrol to a hospital in Vienna, Austria. She was an orphan by her seventh birthday and graduated from the State Teachers College for Progressive Education in Vienna at age 18, in 1923. She entered Nonnberg Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Salzburg, intending to become a nun. While still...
