Sound
Jean Wiener
FR, EN, NL cinema · 81 credits
Born
19 March 1896
Died
8 June 1982 (aged 86)
Birthplace
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.
Known for
Filmography
L'Âge de Monsieur est avancé
Original Music Composer
Le Crime d'amour
Original Music Composer
Lettres d'amour en Somalie
1982
Love Letters in Somalia
Original Music Composer
Duelle (Une Quarantaine)
as Au piano
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
Original Music Composer
On the Lam
Original Music Composer
The Demise of Father Mouret
Original Music Composer
God Chose Paris
Original Music Composer
A Gentle Woman
Original Music Composer
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Original Music Composer
Mouchette
Original Music Composer
The Golem
Original Music Composer
Les filous
1967
Les filous
Original Music Composer
Au Hasard Balthazar
Original Music Composer
Lady L
as Krajewski
Our Agent Tiger
Original Music Composer
Merlusse
Original Music Composer
Quatrevingt-treize
Sound Director
Pantalaskas
Original Music Composer
Stop the Massacre
as Pianist
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
La Garçonne
Original Music Composer
Notre Dame, cathédrale de Paris
Original Music Composer
School for Love
as Piano Teacher (uncredited), Original Music Composer
Station 307
Original Music Composer
The Count of Monte Cristo
Original Music Composer
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Original Music Composer
Dust of Life
Original Music Composer
Forgotten Stones
Original Music Composer
Under the Paris Sky
Original Music Composer
The Century Is Fifty
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
Rendezvous in July
Original Music Composer
Panique
Original Music Composer
Back Streets of Paris
Original Music Composer
Nous continuons la France
1946
Nous continuons la France
Original Music Composer
The Lightning Rod Thief
Original Music Composer
The Heart of a Nation
as (uncredited), Music
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
Original Music Composer
The Passengers of Ursa Major
Original Music Composer
The Scarecrow
Original Music Composer
Cristobal's Gold
Original Music Composer
Behind the Facade
as Pianist of the “Perroquet” (uncredited), Music
The Last Turning
Original Music Composer
The Woman at the End of the World
Original Music Composer
Le Messager de la lumière
Original Music Composer
L'Homme sans cœur
Original Music Composer
Nuits de feu
1937
Nights of Fire
Original Music Composer
Quand minuit sonnera
1936
Quand minuit sonnera
Original Music Composer
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Original Music Composer
La Bandera
Original Music Composer
Phénomènes électriques
Original Music Composer
Maria Chapdelaine
Original Music Composer
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
Sound Director
The Man with the Hispano
Original Music Composer
The Crazy Ray
Original Music Composer
The Woman from Nowhere
as Le pianiste, Music