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.

All labels observed (55)

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

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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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Daniel Truhitte performerIn The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (1965 film)
Nonnberg Abbey mediaAppearance The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (1965 film)
Nonnberg Abbey mediaAppearance The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (stage musical)
My Favorite Things (John Coltrane album) titleTrackFrom The Sound of Music
subject surface form: My Favorite Things
Mary Martin notableWork The Sound of Music
William H. Reynolds notableWork The Sound of Music
William H. Reynolds notableWork The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (film editing)
William H. Reynolds workedOn The Sound of Music
Richard Haydn notableWork The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (1965 film)
Peggy Wood notableWork The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (1965 film)
Georg von Trapp portrayedIn The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (stage musical)
Georg von Trapp portrayedIn The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (1965 film)
Maria partOfWork The Sound of Music
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Maria partOf The Sound of Music
subject surface form: Maria (song)
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (stage musical)
Maria partOf The Sound of Music
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this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (1965 film)
Maria originalProduction The Sound of Music
subject surface form: Maria (song)
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (1959 Broadway production)
Maria workBasedOn The Sound of Music
subject surface form: Maria (song)
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (1965 film adaptation)
Maria includedIn The Sound of Music
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this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (original cast recording)
Maria includedIn The Sound of Music
subject surface form: Maria (song)
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (1965 film soundtrack)
Maria workLocation The Sound of Music
subject surface form: Maria (song)
this entity surface form: Act I of The Sound of Music
Ted D. McCord notableWork The Sound of Music
Ted D. McCord workedOn The Sound of Music
Liesl von Trapp appearsIn The Sound of Music
Liesl von Trapp appearsIn The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (1965 film)
Liesl von Trapp appearsIn The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (stage musical)
Liesl von Trapp fictionalUniverse The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music universe
Friedrich von Trapp portrayedIn The Sound of Music
Max Detweiler appearsIn The Sound of Music
Max Detweiler appearsIn The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (1965 film)
Max Detweiler appearsIn The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (1959 musical)
Max Detweiler portrayedIn The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (1965 film)
Max Detweiler singsIn The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (stage musical)
Russel Crouse notableWork The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (book for the musical)
Kurt von Trapp associatedWithWork The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: "The Sound of Music"
Brigitta von Trapp portrayedIn The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: stage musical "The Sound of Music"
Brigitta von Trapp portrayedIn The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: 1965 film "The Sound of Music"
Marta von Trapp hasRepresentationIn The Sound of Music
Gretl von Trapp associatedWith The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (indirectly, via family story)
Louisa von Trapp appearsIn The Sound of Music
Louisa von Trapp appearsIn The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (1965 film)
Louisa von Trapp appearsIn The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (stage musical)
Louisa von Trapp firstAppearance The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music (1959 Broadway musical)
Angela Cartwright notableWork The Sound of Music
Angela Cartwright castMemberOf The Sound of Music
Ted McCord notableWork The Sound of Music
Ted McCord workedOn The Sound of Music
Charmian Carr notableWork The Sound of Music
Charmian Carr filmography The Sound of Music
Laura Benanti notableWork The Sound of Music
this entity surface form: The Sound of Music Live!