Len Fehskens wrote in part:

>A few days back, Michel Bertignac inquired about Octavio Pinto.  The New
>Groves does not have an entry for Octavio Pinto...

Pinto was primarily an architect, but composed.  He married Guiomar Novaes
who often played his "Scenes of Childhood," perhaps the only music of his
well known.  I suggest looking in books on Brazilian architecture to find
out more about his life or read the Novaes literature.

Jim Hunsley