George Pinto (composer)

Thomas Pinto's second wife, the English singer Charlotte Brent (1735–1802), encouraged George's early musical upbringing.

[3] Pinto started taking music lessons at a young age with the musician and impresario Johann Salomon.

[2] In 1796 Salomon arranged for Pinto to play a violin concerto at Signora Salvini's benefit concert.

The writer and musician Alexander Campbell wrote:Young Pinto is not only an admirable violin player, but also a first-rate performer on the grand piano forte: to excel on two instruments so widely different from each other, is a proof of genius and unwearied application very seldom to be met with.

If dissipation, and consequent idleness, do not impede him in his career, what may not the musical world expect in his riper manhood?

Tributes after his death included Salomon's comment: "If he had lived and been able to resist the allurements of society, England would have had the honour of producing a second Mozart.

The composer Geoffrey Bush has said of Pinto's G minor violin sonata that it is "passionate in mood, cogent in argument, and full of splendid thematic invention.