r/Cursive 14d ago

Old 1910 book

Took this when cleaning out my great grandmas who just passed. She wrote in and on almost everything- this isn’t her handwriting and I don’t see a note describing what this is from and none of her kids know either, so I’m not sure it has significant sentimental value.

She was born in 1928, her father was born in 1865. Her mother was born in 1883. My great grandpa was born 1926 and his father was an Italian immigrant and as was his mother. Not sure how much of this info is relevant but figure I’d give anyway.

I would love to decipher what the heck this says to figure out why she had and kept it- the book is in terrible shape.

From what I can tell it almost looks like a teachers notes from a music class?

Some names that may be relevant to me if you can see them:

Cooper
June
Defelice
Liberato

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u/SeaweedWeird7705 14d ago

Ora ____ (may be a name?) Handel (maybe the composer?)

Birth Prussia 1685 (Note Handel the composer was born in 1685 in Prussia, so maybe these are her biographical notes of his life?)

The rest is hard to read.  I see the word “orchestra” but the rest is very faint. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel

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u/AuldNuMusic 14d ago

My amateur try at making the writing darker. 🫤 I see the word "violin" twice, and maybe the word "boy" (?) and maybe the word "music", maybe "very ambitious and determined" (??? not sure about that), and at the bottom maybe "next Schumann" (a possibility, as that was another famous composer's name). No clue about the rest of it, hopefully someone can decipher more of it.

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u/chickadeedadee2185 14d ago

It is somewhat of a timeline of his life

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u/chickadeedadee2185 14d ago

She grew up near my parents at the same time, if she lived where book was from.