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Winton Basil Dean (18 March 1916 – 19 December 2013) was an English musicologist of the 20th century, most famous for his research on the life and works—in particular the operas and oratorios —of George Frideric Handel, as detailed in his book Handel's Dramatic Oratorios and Masques (1959).
Father of legendary actor, James Byron Dean. Mr. Dean was a native of Fairmount, IN where he was born on January 17, 1907, a son of Charles and Emma Woolen Dean. His principal life's work was that of a dental technician. At the time of his death, he resided at 4725 South Colonial Oaks Drive in Marion, IN and he...
Jul 29, 2020 · Biography. Winton A. Dean Birth: Jan. 17, 1907 Fairmount Grant County Indiana, USA Death: Feb. 21, 1995 Marion Grant County Indiana, USA. Father of legendary actor, James Byron Dean. Mr. Dean was a native of Fairmount, IN where he was born on January 17, 1907, a son of Charles and Emma Woolen Dean.
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- January 17, 1907
- Mildred Marie (Wilson) Dean
- February 21, 1995
Son of Basil Dean, theatrical director. Authority and author of books on Bizet, Handel, and other composers. His Handel's Dramatic Oratorios and Masques (1959) and Handel's Operas 1704–26 (1987) are major works of scholarship.
Oct 30, 2009 · The present work picks up with the operas written for what Dean calls “the rival queens,” namely Faustina Bordoni, newly arrived in London in 1726, and Francesca Cuzzoni, Handel's leading soprano in the several previous seasons of his Royal Academy.
- Drew Minter
- 2008
This is the first full-length study of Handel by Winton Dean, who has long been recognized as the leading expert on the composer and his works, the operas and oratorios in particular.
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Feb 4, 2023 · James Dean was born in Marion, Indiana in 1931 to Mildred and Winton Dean. Winton was a dental technician at the local Veterans Hospital, a job he found rather dull. When James was about 3-years-old, the family moved south 10 miles to Fairmount, where Winton decided to take up bullfrog farming, according to biographer David Dalton .
