George Frederick Pinto
1785 — 1806
George Frederick Pinto was an English composer and keyboard virtuoso.
Adapted from the Wikipedia article on George Pinto (composer).
From the period sources
George Frederick Pinto, an artist of “rare promise” according to A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1879), was considered by John Cramer with enthusiasm and was likened to “the Sterndale Bennett of his day.” He died at the exceptionally early age of 21, leaving behind only a few sonatas (A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1880). Pinto was also a promising pupil of the violinist Salomon, who featured him in his concerts in 1796 (Grove’s Dictionary, 1908). His piano sonatas were noted as pieces that Samuel Wesley, a renowned extempore organist and pianist, could play spontaneously, capturing the composer’s peculiarities after a single hearing (A History of English Cathedral Music, 1908).