Music written and composed by rodgers and hammerstein, the box office oscar winning movie boasted a dream cast julie andrews as maria, christopher plummer as the captain, eleanor parker as elsa and peggy wood as the mother abbess'. '.strtoupper('w')inner of five academy awards, including best picture and best scoring of music, the sound of music has since become the most popular movie musical ever made'. '.strtoupper('t')he soundtrack features popular favourites like edelweissmariamy favourite thingsclimb every mountaindo re misixteen going on seventeenthe lonely goatherdthe sound of music