- Known For
- Sound
- Born
- March 19, 1896
- Place of Birth
- Paris, France
- Died
- June 8, 1982
Jean Wiener
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 …
Filmography
movieL'Âge de Monsieur est avancé
1987 · Original Music Composer
movieLe Crime d'amour
1982 · Original Music Composer
Love Letters in Somalia
movieLove Letters in Somalia
1982 · Original Music Composer
movieDuelle (Une Quarantaine)
1976 · Au piano
movieThe Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
1974 · Original Music Composer
tvMidi trente
1972 · Self
movieOn the Lam
1971 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Wedding Ring
1971
Samedi soir
tvSamedi soir
1971 · Self
movieThe Demise of Father Mouret
1970 · Original Music Composer
movieLes Ajoncs
1970 · Music
movieGod Chose Paris
1969 · Original Music Composer
movieA Gentle Woman
1969 · Original Music Composer
Les deux coquines
movieLes deux coquines
1969 · Sound
movieThe Diary of an Innocent Boy
1968 · Original Music Composer
movieMouchette
1967 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Golem
1967 · Original Music Composer
Les filous
movieLes filous
1967 · Original Music Composer
movieAu Hasard Balthazar
1966 · Original Music Composer
movieMerlusse
1965 · Original Music Composer
movieLady L
1965 · Krajewski
movieOur Agent Tiger
1965 · Original Music Composer
movieQuatrevingt-treize
1962 · Sound Director
moviePantalaskas
1960 · Original Music Composer
movieStop the Massacre
1959 · Pianist
tvDiscorama
1959 · Self
movieA Woman Like Satan
1958 · Original Music Composer
movieBe Beautiful and Shut Up
1958 · Original Music Composer
movieNeither Seen Nor Recognized
1958 · Original Music Composer
movieSeventh Heaven
1958 · Original Music Composer
movieLovers of Paris
1957 · Original Music Composer
movieNotre Dame, cathédrale de Paris
1957 · Original Music Composer
movieLa Garçonne
1957 · Original Music Composer
movieLes Lumières du soir
1956 · Music
movieDeadlier Than the Male
1956 · Music
movieRencontre à Varsovie
1956 · Music
movieSchool for Love
1955 · Piano Teacher (uncredited), Original Music Composer
movieStation 307
1955 · Original Music Composer
movieTouchez Pas au Grisbi
1954 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Count of Monte Cristo
1954 · Original Music Composer
movieDust of Life
1953 · Original Music Composer
movieJe suis un mouchard
1953 · Music
movieForgotten Stones
1952 · Original Music Composer
movieUnder the Paris Sky
1951 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Century Is Fifty
1950 · Original Music Composer
movieRendezvous in July
1949 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Perfume of the Lady in Black
1949 · Original Music Composer
movieL'Escadron blanc
1949 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Mark of the Day
1949 · Original Music Composer
Zanzabelle in Paris
movieZanzabelle in Paris
1949 · Music
movieL'Homme Que Nous Aimons Le Plus
1949 · Music
moviePanic
1947 · Original Music Composer
movieBack Streets of Paris
1946 · Original Music Composer
Nous continuons la France
movieNous continuons la France
1946 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Lightning Rod Thief
1944 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Passengers of Ursa Major
1943 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Scarecrow
1943 · Original Music Composer
movieLe Voyageur de la Toussaint
1943 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Heart of a Nation
1943 · (uncredited), Music
movieCristobal's Gold
1940 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Last Turning
1939 · Original Music Composer
movieBehind the Facade
1939 · Pianist of the “Perroquet” (uncredited), Music
movieThe Woman at the End of the World
1938 · Original Music Composer
movieLe Messager de la lumière
1938 · Original Music Composer
movieDe man zonder hart
1937 · Music
Nights of Fire
movieNights of Fire
1937 · Original Music Composer
movieL'Homme sans cœur
1937 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Man of the Day
1937 · Music
movieThe Lower Depths
1936 · Music
Quand minuit sonnera
movieQuand minuit sonnera
1936 · Original Music Composer
movieKlokslag twaalf
1936 · Music
movieThe Tomboy
1936 · Music
movieThe Crime of Monsieur Lange
1936 · Original Music Composer
movieLe Voyage imprévu
1935 · Music
movieLa Bandera
1935 · Original Music Composer
moviePhénomènes électriques
1935 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Adventurer
1934 · Music
movieMaria Chapdelaine
1934 · Original Music Composer
movieS. S. Tenacity
1934 · Music
movieKnock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
1933 · Sound Director
Une vie perdue
movieUne vie perdue
1933 · Music
movieThe Man with the Hispano
1933 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Crazy Ray
1925 · Original Music Composer
movieThe Woman from Nowhere
1922 · Le pianiste, Music