The Sound of Music

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The Sound of Music is a beloved mid-20th-century stage musical and film about the von Trapp family, renowned for its memorable songs and enduring popularity.

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Label Occurrences
The Sound of Music canonical 85
The Sound of Music (1965 film) 38
The Sound of Music (stage musical) 27

Statements (67)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Broadway musical
film
musical film
stage musical
basedOn Maria von Trapp
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
BroadwayOpeningYear 1959
BroadwayProducer Howard Lindsay
Leland Hayward
Richard Halliday
BroadwayTonyAward Best Musical
BroadwayTonyAwardYear 1960
composer Richard Rodgers
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalImpact one of the most popular musicals of the 20th century
filmAcademyAward Best Director
Best Film Editing
Best Music, Scoring of Music, Adaptation or Treatment
Best Picture
Best Sound
filmAcademyAwardsYear 1966
filmCaptainActor Christopher Plummer
filmDirector Robert Wise
filmFormat Todd-AO
filmMariaActress Julie Andrews
filmProducer Robert Wise
filmReleaseYear 1965
filmRuntimeMinutes 174
filmScreenwriter Ernest Lehman
filmStudio 20th Century Fox
firstPerformanceCity New York City
firstPerformanceDate 1959-11-16
firstPerformancePlace Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
genre biographical film
drama
musical
romantic musical
hasCharacter Baroness Elsa Schraeder
Captain Georg von Trapp in The Sound of Music
surface form: Captain Georg von Trapp

Liesl
surface form: Liesl von Trapp

Maria Rainer
Max Detweiler
Mother Abbess
hasSong Climb Ev'ry Mountain
Do-Re-Mi
Edelweiss
Maria (song)
My Favorite Things
Sixteen Going on Seventeen
So Long, Farewell
Something Good
The Sound of Music self-linksurface differs
surface form: The Sound of Music (song)
historicalEventContext Anschluss of Austria
surface form: Anschluss
language English
lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II
notableFor enduring popularity
memorable songs
notableTheme family
love
music
resistance to Nazism
originalBroadwayCaptainActor Theodore Bikel
originalBroadwayMariaActress Mary Martin
settingLocation Austria
Salzburg
subject von Trapp family
timePeriodSetting late 1930s

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Richard Rodgers notableWork The Sound of Music
Richard Rodgers notableWork The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (song)
Richard Rodgers notableWork The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (standard)
Richard Rodgers notableWork The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (popular song)
Oscar Hammerstein II notableWork The Sound of Music
Robert Russell Bennett notableWork The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (orchestration)
20th Century Fox notableWork The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (1965 film)
20th Century Fox distributed The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (1965 film)
Anif usedAsFilmLocation The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (region scenes)
Craig Zadan notableWork The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music Live!
Rodgers and Hammerstein notableWork The Sound of Music
Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals notableWork The Sound of Music
Shirley Jones (in some stage productions) performedIn The Sound of Music
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this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (stage production)
Todd-AO notableFilm The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (1965 film)
Christopher Plummer notableWork The Sound of Music
Christopher Plummer notableWork The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (stage production)
Robert Wise directed The Sound of Music
Robert Wise notableWork The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music hasSong The Sound of Music self-linksurface differs
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Edelweiss partOfWork The Sound of Music
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Climb Ev'ry Mountain partOfWork The Sound of Music
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this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (film)
Something Good partOfWork The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (film)
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Something Good featuredOn The Sound of Music
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this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (Rodgers and Hammerstein musical)
Theme from "Edelweiss" (revised) originalWorkFrom The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: musical "The Sound of Music"
Theme from "Edelweiss" (revised) hasCulturalAssociation The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (stage musical)
Theme from "Edelweiss" (revised) hasCulturalAssociation The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (film)
Theme from "Do-Re-Mi" (revised) partOf The Sound of Music
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this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (1959 Broadway musical)
Sixteen Going on Seventeen partOf The Sound of Music
Sixteen Going on Seventeen fromMusical The Sound of Music