Maria Augusta Kutschera von Trapp

Maria Augusta Kutschera von Trapp was an Austrian-born singer and author, best known as a member of the Trapp Family Singers. She was born in Vienna in 1905 and later became a governess for the seven children of Baron Georg von Trapp. She married the Baron in 1927, and they had three more children.

The family began singing together in the mid-1930s and toured Europe as professional singers. In 1938, they fled Nazi-dominated Austria and eventually emigrated to the United States. As the Trapp Family Singers, they gained international fame. Maria Augusta von Trapp wrote The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, which inspired the musical The Sound of Music and its subsequent film adaptation.12