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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Jean Wiener Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jean Wiener |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Sound |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Date of Birth | March 19, 1896 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 86 |
| Deathday | 1982-06-08 |
Jean Wiener Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Duelle | Au piano | 1976-09-15 | The Daughter of the Moon battles the Daughter of the Sun over a magical diamond that will allow the winner to remain on Earth, specifically in modern … |
| The Woman from Nowhere | Le pianiste | 1922-07-26 | A fifty year old woman, scarred by a life of disillusionment and regret, returns to the place where she lived twenty years before, to rekindle happier… |
| Lady L | Krajewski | 1965-12-17 | Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived through… |
| School for Love | Le professeur de piano | 1955-04-25 | At the Conservatory of Vienna the student only have eyes for their beautiful singing teacher, tenor Eric Walter…. |
| Behind the Facade | Le pianiste au cabaret (uncredited) | 1939-03-14 | The owner of an apartment building is found murdered. Two rival policemen, Boucheron and Lambert, investigate the matter and get into the private live… |
| Immortal France | 1943-04-07 | The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussia… | |
Sound
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Mouchette | Original Music Composer | 1967-03-28 | A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man…. |
| Touchez Pas au Grisbi | Original Music Composer | 1954-03-17 | Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the styl… |
| Le Voyageur de la Toussaint | Original Music Composer | 1943-04-08 | A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead – parents because they… |
| Under the Paris Sky | Original Music Composer | 1951-03-28 | Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day…. |
| Notre Dame – cathédrale de Paris | Original Music Composer | 1957-06-08 | … |
| The Crazy Ray | Original Music Composer | 1925-01-01 | A night watchman on the Eiffel Tower wakes up to find the entire population of the city frozen in place…. |
| The Mark of the Day | Original Music Composer | 1949-04-06 | Socially conscious and realistic treatment of hard working coal miners in the north of France, and a struggle between a younger and older engineer…. |
| L’escadron blanc | Original Music Composer | 1949-07-01 | A French squadron of camel drivers pursues a group of looters across the Sahara Desert. After experiencing heat, fever, and peril, the squadron finds … |
| The Perfume of the Lady in Black | Original Music Composer | 1949-10-05 | Mathilde Stangerson just married her fiance, when she heard that Larsan, her cruel former husband, whom she believed to be dead, is actually very much… |
| The Century Is Fifty | Original Music Composer | 1950-03-16 | As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of severa… |
| Rendezvous in July | Original Music Composer | 1949-12-06 | Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians…. |
| Le Tigre se parfume à la dynamite | Original Music Composer | 1965-11-05 | The Tiger is sent to oversee the excavation of a sunken ship. While busy to retrieve the gold tresure in it, he is constantly thwarted by internationa… |
| The Golem | Original Music Composer | 1967-02-18 | French TV adaptation of the Golem myth… |
| Lovers of Paris | Original Music Composer | 1957-10-18 | Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital…. |
| La Garçonne | Original Music Composer | 1957-04-04 | La Garçonne is a 1957 French film directed by Jacqueline Audry. It follows Monique, an ingenue and a clueless girl who believes in true love. When sh… |
| L’âge de Monsieur est avancé | Original Music Composer | 1987-12-30 | Only on the stage of an empty theater, an author and his wife clash: the scene and the life end up getting confused…. |
| Neither Seen Nor Recognized | Original Music Composer | 1958-04-23 | In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher…. |
| Seventh Heaven | Original Music Composer | 1958-03-05 | “Le septième ciel” became Raymond Bernard’s last film; a black comedy about a female brewery owner who donates vast amounts of money to charitable ca… |
| Pantalaskas | Original Music Composer | 1960-02-08 | An off-beat, uneven tale about a man intent on suicide and the three people who try to talk him out of it, Pantalaskas stars American Carl Studer in t… |
| A Woman Like Satan | Original Music Composer | 1959-02-13 | Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him…. |
| Be Beautiful But Shut Up | Original Music Composer | 1958-05-07 | A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she fa… |
| Le Crime d’amour | Original Music Composer | 1982-11-24 | To emerge from anonymity, a young man assumes responsibility for a crime he did not commit…. |
| Au Hasard Balthazar | Original Music Composer | 1966-05-25 | The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balth… |
| Love Letters in Somalia | Original Music Composer | 1982-04-21 | In this epistolary film, the traveler gives us his impressions of Africa parallel to the expression of his amorous distress. The images of the present… |
| On the Lam | Original Music Composer | 1971-09-29 | A young couple of burglars, waiting for trial, marry in jail. Annick writes down her observations of the women’s ward. When she hears that her lover m… |
| The Demise of Father Mouret | Original Music Composer | 1970-10-14 | Serge Mouret is a frail and devout young priest in a tough country parish. When he falls down and loses his memory, he is nursed back to health by Alb… |
| God Chose Paris | Original Music Composer | 1969-09-05 | An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspects of all kind around Paris, starting at the end of… |
| The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir | Original Music Composer | 1974-05-02 | Part One, “The Last Christmas Dinner,” is about the relationship between an old man and an old woman, both homeless. Part Two, “The Electric Floor Pol… |
| A Gentle Woman | Original Music Composer | 1969-08-27 | When his young wife commits suicide with no explanation, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together…. |
| The Diary of an Innocent Boy | Original Music Composer | 1968-01-12 | Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aunt, the Countess de Valandry. There, he is seduced … |
| The Lower Depths | Music | 1936-12-11 | Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, e… |
| Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine | Sound Director | 1933-11-03 | “Everybody is ill: you just don’t know it yet”. Knock, a newly arrived physician takes over a small town through fear and authority. NB : this is a di… |
| Nights of Fire | Original Music Composer | 1937-04-16 | 19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife’s lover. Despite a robust defence from… |
| The Woman from Nowhere | Music | 1922-07-26 | A fifty year old woman, scarred by a life of disillusionment and regret, returns to the place where she lived twenty years before, to rekindle happier… |
| Station 307 | Original Music Composer | 1955-01-01 | A research expedition to the Persian Gulf and a dive near Bahrain in search of oil. The film was sponsored by the French arm of British Petroleum, and… |
| The Tomboy | Music | 1936-02-21 | The eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves home to escape a marriage of convenience to a man she do… |
| The Woman at the End of the World | Original Music Composer | 1938-01-19 | A sailor falls in love with an innkeeper on a lost island…. |
| Cristobal’s Gold | Original Music Composer | 1940-04-22 | Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the Cristobal carries a priceless secre… |
| Les filous | Original Music Composer | 1967-01-01 | … |
| The Scarecrow | Original Music Composer | 1946-08-29 | Animated short originally produced in France by Paul Grimault…. |
| Phénomènes électriques | Original Music Composer | 1935-05-25 | … |
| Forgotten Stones | Original Music Composer | 1952-01-01 | … |
| The Passengers of Ursa Major | Original Music Composer | 1943-10-15 | A futuristic cruise ship with a crew of robots is ready to take its first flight. A boy follows his curious dog on board of the ship, but then the shi… |
| The Lightning Rod Thief | Original Music Composer | 1944-01-01 | Winner of the grand prize at the 1946 Venice Biennale… |
| Panic | Original Music Composer | 1947-01-15 | Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he fee… |
| Le messager de la lumière | Original Music Composer | 1938-01-01 | … |
| The Man of the Day | Music | 1937-01-02 | Alfred Boulard, a good-natured electrician, gives his blood to save Mona Thalia, a great theater actress. Mona Thalia survives and Boulard becomes the… |
| The Last Turning | Music | 1939-05-17 | Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and m… |
| Dust of Life | Original Music Composer | 1954-06-17 | The planet is filled with dust and particles of all kinds, natural or originated by man. Such a state of things has of course a great many consequence… |
| School for Love | Music | 1955-04-25 | At the Conservatory of Vienna the student only have eyes for their beautiful singing teacher, tenor Eric Walter…. |
| Rencontre à Varsovie | Music | 1956-01-01 | Jacques, a young reporter, is in charge of covering the International Youth Meeting in Warsaw. He falls in love with a young participant, Mireille, wh… |
| Une vie perdue | Music | 1933-09-08 | A jealous young woman murders her husband’s mistress. A notorious scoundrel is accused of the crime. When, seized with remorse, the young woman goes t… |
| Les deux coquines | Sound | 1969-02-28 | … |
| Klokslag Twaalf | Music | 1936-11-05 | On his wedding day, mere hours before the statute of limitations for his crimes expires, revengeful mobsters abduct former criminal Jean Verdier. The … |
| De Man Zonder Hart | Music | 1937-04-23 | When his colleague presents him with (forged) evidence of his wife Sylvette’s unfaithfulness, factory owner Jean Sourdier kills him in a fit of rage. … |
| The Adventurer | Music | 1934-12-28 | A scandalised Frenchman returns from Africa where he has been involved in illegal trading of mines (resulting in the deaths of many African miners). H… |
| The Man in the Hispano-Suiza | Sound | 1933-03-24 | The almost financially ruined French gentleman Gaston Dewalter spends several days in Biarritz before going off in the Hispano-Suiza, a luxe car which… |
| Back Streets of Paris | Music | 1946-11-27 | Madame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral scruple, she once killed her husband whose honesty was … |
| Deadlier Than the Male | Music | 1956-04-13 | In Les Halles, in the heart of Paris, the restaurateur André Chatelin, leads an uneventful life until the arrival from Marseille of Catherine, the da… |
| S. S. Tenacity | Music | 1934-04-01 | Bastien and Ségard decide to leave France for Canada. They buy tickets aboard a rickety craft, the Tenacity, that never quite seems able to leave por… |
| Maria Chapdelaine | Music | 1934-12-14 | A young woman has three suitors on her father’s logging ranch on the Quebec frontier…. |
| Le voyage imprévu | Music | 1935-12-31 | A husband orders his wife to recover a lost slipper. The wife enlists the aid of her friend, Beatrice (Betty Stockfield) to bring the slipper to her i… |
| The Man in the Hispano-Suiza | Music | 1933-03-24 | The almost financially ruined French gentleman Gaston Dewalter spends several days in Biarritz before going off in the Hispano-Suiza, a luxe car which… |
| La Bandera | Original Music Composer | 1935-09-25 | Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets th… |
| Immortal France | Music | 1943-04-07 | The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussia… |
| Zanzabelle in Paris | Music | 1949-01-26 | In an animal school in the heart of Africa a giraffe wonders about the trip to Paris…. |
| Quand minuit sonnera | Original Music Composer | 1936-11-27 | A criminal is being blackmailed by his former accomplices. He does everything in his power to gain time because the statutory limitation for the crime… |
| L’homme sans coeur | Original Music Composer | 1937-03-04 | Sentenced to 20 years after killing a colleague for revealing that his wife was unfaithful, Sourdier escapes hoping to kill the woman as well.He learn… |
| Je suis un mouchard | Music | 1953-04-17 | Mado loves Henry but is coveted by Bob Torquella, a dangerous gangster. The latter, mad with jealousy, is prepared to do everything to get rid of Henr… |
| The Crime of Monsieur Lange | Original Music Composer | 1936-01-24 | A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police’s description: his name is Amedee … |
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