The Sound of Music 123 is based on the autobiography of Maria Von Trapp: "The Sound of Music" was written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, the deans of American musicals. Adapted from The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. "The Sound of Music" premiered on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater on November 16, 1959, becoming the second longest-running Broadway musical in the 1950s. But the film version of "The Sound of Music" produced by Twentieth Century Fox in 1965 made it onto the world stage and was loved by millions of viewers in various countries around the world