Johannes von Trapp

Johannes von Trapp
Born (1939-01-17) January 17, 1939 (age 85)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater
OccupationSinger
Spouse
Lynne Peterson
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(m. 1969)​
Children2
Parents

Johannes von Trapp (born January 17, 1939) is an American Austrian singer and former member of the Trapp Family Singers, whose lives were the inspiration for the musical and movie The Sound of Music.[1] He is the tenth and youngest child.[2] As of September 2023, Johannes is the last surviving sibling of the von Trapp family.[3]

  1. ^ "The Sound of Difference". New York Times. March 10, 1998. Retrieved January 9, 2011. He thought a moment, good taste, culture, all these wonderful upper-class standards that people make fun of in movies like Titanic. ...
  2. ^ Stephanie Clifford (December 24, 2008). "Von Trapps Reunited, Without the Singing". New York Times. Retrieved December 26, 2008. Still, Johannes von Trapp, the 10th and youngest child, remembers growing up relatively anonymously in a quiet, strict home. ... By 1969, he had graduated from Dartmouth, completed a master's degree from the Yale school of forestry and was planning on an academic career in natural resources. He returned to Stowe to put the inn's finances in order, and ended up running the place. He tried to leave, moving to a ranch in British Columbia in 1977 and staying a few years, then moving to a ranch in Montana. But the professional management in Stowe kept quitting. 'Now I'm stuck here,' he said.
  3. ^ Genzlinger, Neil (May 18, 2022). "Rosmarie Trapp, of the 'Sound of Music' Family, Dies at 93". The New York Times. Retrieved November 9, 2022.