Jean Wiener
Sound
1896-03-19 · Paris, France
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.
Filmography
L'Âge de Monsieur est avancé
1987 · Movie
Le Crime d'amour
1982 · Movie
Love Letters in Somalia
1982 · Movie
Duelle (Une Quarantaine)
1976 · Movie
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
1974 · Movie
Midi trente
1972 · Series
On the Lam
1971 · Movie
The Wedding Ring
1971 · Movie
Samedi soir
1971 · Series
The Demise of Father Mouret
1970 · Movie
Les Ajoncs
1970 · Movie
God Chose Paris
1969 · Movie
A Gentle Woman
1969 · Movie
Les deux coquines
1969 · Movie
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
1968 · Movie
Mouchette
1967 · Movie
The Golem
1967 · Movie
Les filous
1967 · Movie
Au Hasard Balthazar
1966 · Movie
Merlusse
1965 · Movie
Lady L
1965 · Movie
Our Agent Tiger
1965 · Movie
Quatrevingt-treize
1962 · Movie
Pantalaskas
1960 · Movie
Stop the Massacre
1959 · Movie
Discorama
1959 · Series
A Woman Like Satan
1958 · Movie
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
1958 · Movie
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
1958 · Movie
Seventh Heaven
1958 · Movie
Lovers of Paris
1957 · Movie
Notre Dame, cathédrale de Paris
1957 · Movie
La Garçonne
1957 · Movie
Les Lumières du soir
1956 · Movie
Deadlier Than the Male
1956 · Movie
Rencontre à Varsovie
1956 · Movie
School for Love
1955 · Movie
Station 307
1955 · Movie
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
1954 · Movie
The Count of Monte Cristo
1954 · Movie
Dust of Life
1953 · Movie
Je suis un mouchard
1953 · Movie
La Joie de vivre
1952 · Series
Forgotten Stones
1952 · Movie
Under the Paris Sky
1951 · Movie
The Century Is Fifty
1950 · Movie
Rendezvous in July
1949 · Movie
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
1949 · Movie
L'Escadron blanc
1949 · Movie
The Mark of the Day
1949 · Movie
Zanzabelle in Paris
1949 · Movie
L'Homme Que Nous Aimons Le Plus
1949 · Movie
Panic
1947 · Movie
Back Streets of Paris
1946 · Movie
Nous continuons la France
1946 · Movie
The Lightning Rod Thief
1944 · Movie
The Passengers of Ursa Major
1943 · Movie
The Scarecrow
1943 · Movie
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
1943 · Movie
The Heart of a Nation
1943 · Movie
Cristobal's Gold
1940 · Movie
The Last Turning
1939 · Movie
Behind the Facade
1939 · Movie
The Woman at the End of the World
1938 · Movie
Le Messager de la lumière
1938 · Movie
De man zonder hart
1937 · Movie
Nights of Fire
1937 · Movie
L'Homme sans cœur
1937 · Movie
The Man of the Day
1937 · Movie
The Lower Depths
1936 · Movie
Quand minuit sonnera
1936 · Movie
Klokslag twaalf
1936 · Movie
The Tomboy
1936 · Movie
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
1936 · Movie
Le Voyage imprévu
1935 · Movie
La Bandera
1935 · Movie
Phénomènes électriques
1935 · Movie
The Adventurer
1934 · Movie
Maria Chapdelaine
1934 · Movie
S. S. Tenacity
1934 · Movie
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
1933 · Movie
Une vie perdue
1933 · Movie
The Man with the Hispano
1933 · Movie
The Crazy Ray
1925 · Movie
The Woman from Nowhere
1922 · Movie