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.
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Filmography
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Movies 110
TV Shows 3
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L'âge de Monsieur est avancé (1987)
Le Crime d'amour (1982)
Love Letters in Somalia (1982)
Duelle (1976)
Voyage avec un âne dans les Cévennes (1975)
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1974)
Féminin-féminin (1973)
Midi trente (1972)
On the Lam (1971)
Samedi soir (1971)
The Demise of Father Mouret (1970)
God Chose Paris (1969)
A Gentle Woman (1969)
Les deux coquines (1969)
The Diary of an Innocent Boy (1968)
October Revolution (1967)
Mouchette (1967)
The Golem (1967)
Les filous (1967)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Lady L (1965)
Le Tigre se parfume à la dynamite (1965)
Ils ont tué Jaurès (1963)
Quatrevingt-treize (1962)
Les Bras de la nuit (1961)
Le Capitaine H (1961)
The Nabob Affair (1960)
Pantalaskas (1960)
Stop the Massacre (1959)
A Woman Like Satan (1959)
Discorama (1959)
Be Beautiful But Shut Up (1958)
Neither Seen Nor Recognized (1958)
The Creation of the World (1958)
Seventh Heaven (1958)
Lovers of Paris (1957)
Notre Dame - cathédrale de Paris (1957)
La Garçonne (1957)
Les lumières du soir (1956)
Life is beautiful (1956)
Deadlier Than the Male (1956)
Rencontre à Varsovie (1956)
School for Love (1955)
Rendez-vous of the Docks (1955)
Station 307 (1955)
La Soupe à la grimace (1954)
On the Bench (1954)
The Roundup is for Tonight (1954)
Dust of Life (1954)
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
Je suis un mouchard (1953)
Forgotten Stones (1952)
Ein Lächeln im Sturm (1951)
Himalayan Epic (1951)
Under the Paris Sky (1951)
Skipper Next to God (1951)
A Smile in the Storm (1950)
The Century Is Fifty (1950)
Rendezvous in July (1949)
The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1949)
L'escadron blanc (1949)
The Mark Of The Day (1949)
Zanzabelle in Paris (1949)
La Carcasse et le Tord-cou (1948)
Fort De La Solitude (1948)
Passionnelle (1947)
Panic (1947)
Back Streets of Paris (1946)
Once Is Enough (1946)
Impasse (1946)
Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent (1946)
The Lightning Rod Thief (1944)
The Passengers of Ursa Major (1943)
The Scarecrow (1943)
Madame et le Mort (1943)
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint (1943)
Immortal France (1943)
Cristobal's Gold (1940)
The Last Turning (1939)
Behind the Facade (1939)
The Woman at the End of the World (1938)
Le Messager de la lumière (1938)
Vive la vie (1937)
De Man Zonder Hart (1937)
Nights of Fire (1937)
A Woman of No Importance (1937)
L'Homme sans cœur (1937)
La Bête aux sept manteaux (1937)
The Man of the Day (1937)
The Lower Depths (1936)
Quand minuit sonnera (1936)
Klokslag Twaalf (1936)
The Tomboy (1936)
Rose (1936)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
Le Voyage imprévu (1935)
La Bandera (1935)
Phénomènes électriques (1935)
Le Clown Bux (1935)
Marius and Olive in Paris (1935)
The Adventurer (1934)
Maria Chapdelaine (1934)
Jeanne (1934)
Les Affaires publiques (1934)
S. S. Tenacity (1934)
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine (1933)
Une vie perdue (1933)
The Man with the Hispano (1933)
Buridan's Donkey (1932)
The Crazy Ray (1925)
L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine (1923)
The Woman from Nowhere (1922)
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GenderMale
Birthday1896-03-19
Deathday1982-06-08 (86 years old)
Birth NameJean Albert Henri Wiener
Birth Place17th arrondissement of Paris, France
ChildrenÉlisabeth Wiener
CitizenshipsFrance
AwardsKnight of the Legion of Honour
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