Known For
Sound
Born
Mar 19, 1896
Died
Jun 08, 1982
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Credits
85 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
L'Âge de Monsieur est avancé
Original Music Composer
Le Crime d'amour
Original Music Composer
Love Letters in Somalia
Original Music Composer
Duelle (Une Quarantaine)
Au piano
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
Original Music Composer
Midi trente
Self
On the Lam
Original Music Composer
The Wedding Ring
Samedi soir
Self
The Demise of Father Mouret
Original Music Composer
Les Ajoncs
Music
God Chose Paris
Original Music Composer
A Gentle Woman
Original Music Composer
Les deux coquines
Sound
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Original Music Composer
Mouchette
Original Music Composer
The Golem
Original Music Composer
Les filous
Original Music Composer
Au Hasard Balthazar
Original Music Composer
Merlusse
Original Music Composer
Lady L
Krajewski
Our Agent Tiger
Original Music Composer
Quatrevingt-treize
Sound Director
Pantalaskas
Original Music Composer
Stop the Massacre
Pianist
Discorama
Self
A Woman Like Satan
Original Music Composer
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
Original Music Composer
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
Original Music Composer
Seventh Heaven
Original Music Composer
Lovers of Paris
Original Music Composer
Notre Dame, cathédrale de Paris
Original Music Composer
La Garçonne
Original Music Composer
Les Lumières du soir
Music
Deadlier Than the Male
Music
Rencontre à Varsovie
Music
School for Love
Piano Teacher (uncredited)
Station 307
Original Music Composer
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Original Music Composer
The Count of Monte Cristo
Original Music Composer
Dust of Life
Original Music Composer
Je suis un mouchard
Music
La Joie de vivre
Self
Forgotten Stones
Original Music Composer
Under the Paris Sky
Original Music Composer
The Century Is Fifty
Original Music Composer
Rendezvous in July
Original Music Composer
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Original Music Composer
L'Escadron blanc
Original Music Composer
The Mark of the Day
Original Music Composer