Editing Georg von Trapp (section)

==Turning to music==
[[File:Music. Rupert & Werner Von Trapp BAnQ P48S1P13787.jpg|thumb|left|The two eldest Trapp sons, [[Rupert von Trapp|Rupert]] (right) and [[Werner von Trapp|Werner]], in U.S. Army uniforms, reading sheet music on 24 January 1946]]
In 1935, Trapp's money, inherited from his English first wife, was invested in a bank in England. Austria was under economic pressure from a hostile Germany, and Austrian banks were in a precarious position. Trapp sought to help a friend in the banking business, Auguste Caroline Lammer (1885–1937), so he withdrew most of his money from London and deposited it in an Austrian bank. The bank failed, wiping out most of the family's substantial fortune.<ref name=nara2/>

At about that time, a Catholic priest, [[Franz Wasner]], instructed the children in music.<ref>{{cite web |title=Franz Wasner |url=https://www.sound-of-music.com/the-real-story/franz-wasner/ |website=The Sound of Music Salzburg |publisher=Panorama Tours |date=14 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ransom |first1=Candice F. |title=Maria von Trapp: Beyond the Sound of Music |date=2002 |publisher=Carolrhoda Books |location=Minneapolis |isbn=9781575054445 |pages=44–45}}</ref> Around 1936, [[Lotte Lehmann]] heard the family sing, and she suggested they perform paid concerts. When the Austrian Chancellor [[Kurt von Schuschnigg]] heard them on the radio, he invited them to perform in [[Vienna]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Family Choir|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,772134,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415083822/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,772134,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 April 2009|work=[[Time magazine]]|date=19 December 1938|access-date=7 January 2011}}</ref>  Father Wasner became the group's musical director.