Fujimura/Sellars - PINTO:VIOLIN SONATAS NOS 1-3

Did �the British Mozart� drink himself to death? George Frederick Pinto (1785�1806) was a child prodigy both as performer � on violin and piano � and as composer. But he was only twenty when he died, probably from tuberculosis or from what one writer called �dissipation�. He is thus is one of the major �what-ifs� of music history:, the music he composed in the little time he had reveals a composer as gifted as almost any of his contemporaries. These three quirky and inventive violin sonatas � receiving their first recordings here � sit on the cusp of Romanticism, their Classical elegance warmed by a graceful lyricism that looks forward to Schubert.