Pinto: Complete Sonatas for Piano & Violin

Featuring

Kenji Fujimura
Elizabeth Sellars
George Frederick Pinto

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Compositional Technique

In these sonatas, Pinto allows the violin to introduce some thematic material but gives the piano the majority of the technical display.

Composer Biography

George Frederick Pinto (1785-1806) was an English composer, violinist, and pianist, named after Handel.

Recording & Production

This album features the first recordings of George Frederick Pinto's complete sonatas for piano and violin.

Composer Biography

Pinto's maternal grandfather, Thomas Pinto (1714-c. 1780), was a notable London-born violinist and composer of Italian ancestry.

Composer Biography

Pinto began studying violin at age eight with Johann Peter Salomon (1745-1815), a leading London impresario and patron of Haydn, who presented him as a prodigy.

Critical Reception

Pinto garnered high praise from contemporaries like Samuel Wesley (1766-1837) and William Ayrton (1777-1858), with Salomon suggesting he could have been 'a second Mozart' had he lived longer.