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PINSUTI, CIRO (1829--1888)

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PINSUTI, CIRO (1829--1888)

PINSUTI, CIRO (1829--1888) , Anglo-See also:

ITALIAN

Italian composer, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

SIENA

Siena, and was educated in See also:

MUSIC

music, for a career as a pianist, partly in See also:

LONDON

London and partly at See also:

Bologna, where he was a See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of See also:

ROSSINI, GIOACHINO ANTONIO (1792-1868)

Rossini. From 1848 he made his See also:

home in See also:

England, where he became a teacher of singing, and in 1856 he was made a See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor at the See also:

Academy of Music in London. He became well known as a composer of numerous favourite songs and See also:

PART

part-songs, as well as of three operas brought out in See also:

Italy, and it is by the former that he is still remembered.

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