Jean Wiener
Jean Wiener (or Wiéner) (19 March 1896, 14th arrondissement of Paris – 8 June 1982, Paris) was a French pianist and composer.
Wiener was trained at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied alongside Darius Milhaud, and worked with Erik Satie. He then embarked on a career as concert impresario, composer and pianist. He was the house pianist at the Gaya bar, and later at Le Boeuf sur le Toit. In 1924, a chance encounter with Clement Doucet (who succeeded him at Le Boeuf) brought him into the world of popular music. Already a jazz enthusiast, Wiener found fame with Doucet in the music hall s of Europe as a piano duo, under the name "Wiener et Doucet" in which they performed classical music, hot dance and jazz. The two friends recorded many duos between 1925 and 1937. After the end of the war in 1945, Wiener devoted himself fully to composition, notably film music (working on more than 300), as well as the opening theme music for ORTF's film history program "History speechless" (History without words).
He was of some significance in the promotion of new music, both by his friends in the Les Six (Milhaud, Poulenc, etc.), and by composers such as Schoenberg, Berg and Webern. His compositions involve the use of jazz informed by French wit and elegance.
His daughter, Elizabeth Wiener, is an actress, singer and singer-songwriter.
Jean Wiener published his memoirs in 1978 as Allegro Appassionato.
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Movies (82)
L'Âge de Monsieur est avancé
1987 · Original Music Composer
Le Crime d'amour
1982 · Original Music Composer
Love Letters in Somalia
1982 · Original Music Composer
Square X
1981 · Compositor
Duelle (Une Quarantaine)
1976 · Au piano
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
1974 · Original Music Composer
On the Lam
1971 · Original Music Composer
The Wedding Ring
1971
The Demise of Father Mouret
1970 · Original Music Composer
Les Ajoncs
1970 · Music
God Chose Paris
1969 · Original Music Composer
A Gentle Woman
1969 · Original Music Composer
Les deux coquines
1969 · Sound
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
1968 · Original Music Composer
Mouchette
1967 · Original Music Composer
The Golem
1967 · Original Music Composer
Les filous
1967 · Original Music Composer
Au Hasard Balthazar
1966 · Original Music Composer
Merlusse
1965 · Original Music Composer
Lady L
1965 · Krajewski
Our Agent Tiger
1965 · Original Music Composer
Quatrevingt-treize
1962 · Sound Director
Pantalaskas
1960 · Original Music Composer
Stop the Massacre
1959 · Pianist
A Woman Like Satan
1958 · Original Music Composer
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
1958 · Original Music Composer
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
1958 · Original Music Composer
Seventh Heaven
1958 · Original Music Composer
Lovers of Paris
1957 · Original Music Composer
Notre Dame, cathédrale de Paris
1957 · Original Music Composer
La Garçonne
1957 · Original Music Composer
Les Lumières du soir
1956 · Music
Deadlier Than the Male
1956 · Music
Rencontre à Varsovie
1956 · Music
School for Love
1955 · Piano Teacher (uncredited), Original Music Composer
Station 307
1955 · Original Music Composer
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
1954 · Original Music Composer
The Count of Monte Cristo
1954 · Original Music Composer
Dust of Life
1953 · Original Music Composer
Je suis un mouchard
1953 · Music
Forgotten Stones
1952 · Original Music Composer
Under the Paris Sky
1951 · Original Music Composer
The Century Is Fifty
1950 · Original Music Composer
Rendezvous in July
1949 · Original Music Composer
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
1949 · Original Music Composer
L'Escadron blanc
1949 · Original Music Composer
The Mark of the Day
1949 · Original Music Composer
Zanzabelle in Paris
1949 · Music
L'Homme Que Nous Aimons Le Plus
1949 · Music
Panique
1947 · Original Music Composer
Back Streets of Paris
1946 · Original Music Composer
Nous continuons la France
1946 · Original Music Composer
The Lightning Rod Thief
1944 · Original Music Composer
The Passengers of Ursa Major
1943 · Original Music Composer
The Scarecrow
1943 · Original Music Composer
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
1943 · Original Music Composer
The Heart of a Nation
1943 · (uncredited), Music
Cristobal's Gold
1940 · Original Music Composer
The Last Turning
1939 · Original Music Composer
Behind the Facade
1939 · Pianist of the “Perroquet” (uncredited), Music
The Woman at the End of the World
1938 · Original Music Composer
Le Messager de la lumière
1938 · Original Music Composer
De man zonder hart
1937 · Music
Nights of Fire
1937 · Original Music Composer
L'Homme sans cœur
1937 · Original Music Composer
The Man of the Day
1937 · Music
The Lower Depths
1936 · Music
Quand minuit sonnera
1936 · Original Music Composer
Klokslag twaalf
1936 · Music
The Tomboy
1936 · Music
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
1936 · Original Music Composer
Le Voyage imprévu
1935 · Music
La Bandera
1935 · Original Music Composer
Phénomènes électriques
1935 · Original Music Composer
The Adventurer
1934 · Music
Maria Chapdelaine
1934 · Original Music Composer
S. S. Tenacity
1934 · Music
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
1933 · Sound Director
Une vie perdue
1933 · Music
The Man with the Hispano
1933 · Original Music Composer
The Crazy Ray
1925 · Original Music Composer
The Woman from Nowhere
1922 · Le pianiste, Music
