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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & title: Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660- 1800. Vol. 12, Pinner to Rizzo Highfill, Philip H.; Burnim, Kalman A.; author: Langhans, Edward A. publisher: Southern Illinois University Press isbn10 | asin: 0809312816 print isbn13: 9780809312818 ebook isbn13: 9780585031538 language: English Performing arts--England--London-- Biography--Dictionaries, Actors--England-- London--Biography--Dictionaries, subject Theatrical managers--England--London-- Biography--Dictionaries, London (England)--Biography--Dictionaries. publication date: 1987 lcc: PN2597.H54 1987eb ddc: 790.2/092 Performing arts--England--London-- Biography--Dictionaries, Actors--England-- London--Biography--Dictionaries, subject: Theatrical managers--England--London-- Biography--Dictionaries, London (England)--Biography--Dictionaries. Page i The Tate Gallery JAMES QUIN by Hogarth Page iii A Biographical Dictionary Of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 16601800 Volume 12: Pinner to Rizzo PHILIP H. HIGHFILL, JR. KALMAN A. BURNIM EDWARD A. LANGHANS SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS CARBONDALE AND EDWARDSVILLE Page iv Copyright © 1987 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Edited by Susan Wilson Designed by Andor Braun and George Lenox Production supervised by Natalia Nadraga Publication of this work was made possible in part through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data (Revised for vol. 12) Highfill, Philip H. A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, managers & other stage personnel in London, 16601800. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Performing artsEnglandLondonBiography. I. Burnim, Kalman A., joint author. II. Langhans, Edward A., joint author. III. Title. PN2597.H5 790.2'092'2 {B} 71-157068 ISBN 0-8093-1281-6 Page 1 P Pinner, George {fl. 17421755}, actor. At the James Street playhouse George Pinner played Antinous in Ulysses on 31 May 1742 and Benducar in Don Sebastian on 5 January 1743. He was again in London on 6 October 1746, playing Chamont in The Orphan at the New Wells, May Fair, for his benefit. On the sixteenth he appeared at Southwark as Aimwell in The Stratagem. From 27 October to the middle of November he was at the Goodman's Fields Theatre, acting Alvarez in The Revenge, a Recruit in The Recruiting Officer, Aimwell, Omar in Tamerlane, Jeremy in Love for Love, Freeman in A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Trueman in The London Merchant, Martin in The Anatomist, and Hubert in The Royal Merchant. On 2 May 1748 Jane Shore was presented at the Haymarket Theatre; the General Advertiser said Pinner played Bellmore, but the Daily Advertiser gave that role to Palmer. At Bartholomew Fair on 24 August 1748 Pinner played the Master in The Consequences of Industry and Idleness; at the New Wells, Leman Street, on 27 February 1749 he was Blunt in The Committee; and at Bartholomew Fair in August he acted the Bastard in King John. Pinner appeared at the Haymarket Theatre from 3 to 15 September 1755 as Muckworm in The Honest Yorkshireman, Bullock in The Recruiting Officer, Cook in The Devil to Pay, a Fisherman and Thunder in The Rehearsal, and Aesop in Lethe. Pinnick, Robert d. 1778, actor? The Morning Chronicle reported that Robert Pinnick, formerly of Drury Lane Theatre, died on 4 February 1778. Pinnick is otherwise unknown. Possibly an error was made in the name, and if so, the likeliest candidate would be the actor Paddick, who was at Drury Lane from 1749 to perhaps 1760. Pinington, Thomas b. 1711, oddity, dancer, tumbler. The Daily Advertiser of 6 December 1744 announced that Thomas Pinington, age 33, born in Liverpool without legs, feet, or hands, was performing hornpipe dancing and tumbling at Rummer Tavern, Charing Cross. He was also exhibited at May Fair in 1746. Pinny, Mrs. See PENNY, CATHERINE. Pinto, Mr {fl. 17841793?}, violinist. A Mr Pinto, probably a son though possibly a brother of Thomas Pinto the well-known concert violinist, was listed by Charles Burney as a "second violinist" among the performers at the Handel Memorial Concerts at Westminster Abbey and the Pantheon in May and June 1784. Nothing more seems to have been recorded about his performances. Possibly he was the Mr Pinto whose name appears in the Minute Books of the Royal Society of Musicians nearly a decade later. Several entries there suggest that he was in ill health. On 1 July 1792 a letter received from him was "referred to {the} Gen{eral} Meeting." On 2 June 1793 a "petition'' from him was likewise referred. On 5 August 1798 the Board received "thanks from Mrs Pinto for {a} benefaction of £5 paid to her by order of Gen. Meeting." Payments in the same amount were made to her on 4 August 1799, 3 August 1800, and 5 July 1801. Pinto, George Frederick 17851806, violinist, pianist, singer. George Frederick Pinto was born in the Lambeth district of London on 25 September 1785, the son of Samuel Sanders and the singer National Portrait Gallery GEORGE FREDERICK PINTO engraving by Burt, after Robertson Page 2 Julia Pinto, whose surname he eventually adopted. His mother's father was the violinist Thomas Pinto and her mother the opera and concert singer Sibilla Gronaman Pinto. The boy revealed his inherent musical talent early. It was encouraged by his mother's stepmother, the singer Charlotte Brent Pinto. Young George was taught by the fine German violinist and composer Johann Peter Salomon, who also fostered the boy's early career. George played first in public at Signora Salvini's benefit on 4 May 1796, according to Nicholas Temperley in the New Grove account. Certainly by the time he was ten years old he was appearing in Salomon's London concerts and touring with him to Oxford, Cambridge, Winchester, Bath, and Scotland. Sainsbury's 1824 account pronounced him "almost equally great on the pianoforte as on the violin, and well versed in counterpoint. " In time the piano became his favorite instrument. On 23 February 1798 at the end of part one of the Messiah at Covent Garden Theatre a concerto on the violin "by Master Pinto (aged Eleven {recte 13} Years, Grandson to the celebrated Performer of the Name)" was heard; that bill seems to be the only evidence of Pinto's involvement with a public theatre in London. At Salomon's benefit concert on 10 March 1800, Pinto played the violin and the virtuoso John Field the piano. Pinto substituted for Corri at the latter's Edinburgh concerts when the maestro was prevented from attending by an accident. Pinto became a great favorite of Edinburgh audiences. Sainsbury charged, and both Pohl in Grove's Dictionary (fifth edition) and van der Straeten in his History of the Violin repeated, that Pinto's early death was hastened by intemperance, though van der Straeten added that "the immediate cause" was "a cold contracted while giving a concert in Birmingham." Pinto died, however, in Chelsea, on 23 March 1806, and was buried beside his devoted step-grandmother at St Margaret, Westminster. Pinto was handsome, friendly, and generous and had a good singing voice. Samuel Wesley thought that "a greater musical Genius has not been known," and Salomon believed that Pinto was potentially a "second Mozart." A list of his printed works, much admired in their day, interest in which has recently revived, is furnished, along with an analysis, in the New Grove. A portrait of Pinto playing the violin was engraved by A. R. Burt, after Robertson, and published in 1806. A copy, showing Pinto without the violin, was published on the title page of Pinto's Four Canzonets and a Sonata (n.d.); the caption advises that Pinto died 23 March 1806, aged 20, and that the music was dedicated to his "widow'd Mother," for whose benefit it was published. Pinto, Julia, later Mrs Sanders [fl. 17791805], actress, singer. The Miss Pinto who appeared at Drury Lane on 23 March 1779 as Urganda in Cymon, in what was advertised as "her first appearance on the English stage," was from Dublin's Smock Alley Theatre, where her father Thomas Pinto, the well-known violinist, was leader of the band, and her stepmother, the former Charlotte Brent, had been singing. (Urganda had been one of Mrs Pinto's successful roles.) Her first name, Julia, is furnished by the New Grove in the entry for her son, G. F. Pinto. Miss Pinto joined James Whitley's pickup company at Stourbridge Fair near Cambridge later in 1779, along with other actors from London. Evidently, unlike the others, she remained with Whitley for some time, for a bill for his troupe at Derby dated 10 December 1779 contains her name (and asserts that she was "from Covent Garden," though there is no record of her having acted there as Miss Pinto). A Sadler's Wells bill dated 18 May 1781 shows her singing at that house. The Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Museum lists the song

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