Jean Wiener
Biography
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. Source: Article "Jean Wiener" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Personal Details
Movies (47)
L'âge de Monsieur est avancé
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1987
Le Crime d'amour
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1982
Love Letters in Somalia
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1982
Duelle
as Au piano
1976
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1974
On the Lam
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1971
The Wedding Ring
1971
The Demise of Father Mouret
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1970
Les Ajoncs
Music (Sound)
1970
God Chose Paris
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1969
A Gentle Woman
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1969
Les deux coquines
Sound (Sound)
1969
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1968
Mouchette
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1967
The Golem
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1967
Les filous
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1967
Au Hasard Balthazar
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1966
Merlusse
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1965
Lady L
as Krajewski
1965
Our Agent Tiger
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1965
Quatrevingt-treize
Sound Director (Sound)
1962
Pantalaskas
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1960
Stop the Massacre
as Pianist
1959
A Woman Like Satan
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1958
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1958
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1958
Seventh Heaven
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1958
Lovers of Paris
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1957
Notre Dame, cathédrale de Paris
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1957
La Garçonne
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1957
Les Lumières du soir
Music (Sound)
1956
Deadlier Than the Male
Music (Sound)
1956
Rencontre à Varsovie
Music (Sound)
1956
School for Love
as Piano Teacher (uncredited)
1955
Station 307
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1955
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1954
The Count of Monte Cristo
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1954
Dust of Life
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1953
Je suis un mouchard
Music (Sound)
1953
Forgotten Stones
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1952
Under the Paris Sky
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1951
The Century Is Fifty
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1950
Rendezvous in July
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1949
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1949
L'Escadron blanc
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1949
The Mark of the Day
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1949
Zanzabelle in Paris
Music (Sound)
1949
