A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 12, Pinner to Rizzo: Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 ... Dictionary of Actors & Actresses, 1660-1800)

1135 Pages·1987·6.8 MB·English

by  Edward A. Langhans, Professor Philip H Highfill Jr PhD, Professor Kalman A Burnim PhD

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
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language: English
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publication date: 1987
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JAMES QUIN
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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
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Highfill, Philip H.
A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers,
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Includes bibliographical references.
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I. Burnim, Kalman A., joint author. II. Langhans,
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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
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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