Agathe von Trapp
| Agathe von Trapp | |
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Agathe in 1948
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| Born |
Agathe Johanna Erwina Gobertina von Trapp 12 March 1913 Pola, Istria, Austria-Hungary (present-day Pula, Croatia) |
| Died | 28 December 2010 (aged 97) Towson, Maryland, U.S. |
| Occupation | Singer and author |
| Parent(s) |
Georg von Trapp Agatha Whitehead |
Agathe Johanna Erwina Gobertina von Trapp (12 March 1913 – 28 December 2010) was the eldest daughter of Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agatha Whitehead von Trapp. She was also a member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the play and film The Sound of Music. She was portrayed as the character "Liesl".
Agathe was born on 12 March 1913 in Pola, Istria, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Pula, Croatia). She was the eldest daughter and the second of ten children born to Georg von Trapp. The first seven of these were born to his first wife, Agatha Whitehead, while the youngest three: Rosmarie, Eleonore, and Johannes, half-siblings to the elder seven, were born to Georg's second wife, Maria Augusta Kutschera. Agathe von Trapp spent her early years, throughout World War I and after, near Zell am See, Austria.
After the war, Agathe moved with her family to a house called "the Martinschlossl", in Klosterneuburg, a half hour train ride from Vienna, near the Danube. She and her family finally settled near Salzburg, in the town of Aigen in 1925. Agathe was tutored by a governess at home until age 11, when she started attending a local school. Agathe was surrounded by music at an early age, and her father began teaching her guitar when she was in her early teens. Agathe's mother, Agatha Whitehead von Trapp, died of scarlet fever in 1922, when Agathe was almost 10 years old. Her father remarried six years later, to Maria Augusta Kutschera, in November 1927.
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