 He fled with his family to Italy and later to the United States, where he set up a farm and lived until his death in 1947.Maria von Trapp wrote of their time together in her 1949 memoir "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers", which was the inspiration for Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway stage musical "The Sound of Music" in 1959, which was produced and directed by Robert Wise into a popular movie in 1965.Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp was born in Zara, Dalmatia, then a Crown Land of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Zadar, Croatia).