Pinsuti, Ciro (1829–1888)

Italian pianist, singing-teacher, and composer. He studied with his father and played the piano in public as a child. He was taken to England, where he studied composition with Potter; in 1845 he returned to Italy, becoming a pupil of Rossini at Bologna. From 1848 he was in England again, teaching singing for many years in London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and becoming a professor at the Royal Academy of Music, London, in 1856.

Works operas Il mercante di Venezia (after Shakespeare, 1873), Mattia Corvino (1877) and Margherita (1882); Te Deum for the annexation of Tuscany to Italy (1859); hymn for the International Exhibition in London (1871); 30 piano pieces; 230 songs; many vocal duets and trios; part-songs.