Jean Wiener

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Jean Wiener (or Wiéner) (19 March 1896, 14th arrondissement of Paris – 8 June 1982, Paris) was a French pianist and composer.

Life[]

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,^[1] 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 's film history program "" (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, , is an actress, singer and singer-songwriter.

Jean Wiener published his memoirs in 1978 as Allegro Appassionato.

Compositions[]

Film scores[]

1920s[]

• La Femme de nulle part (1922)

1930s[]

• Buridan's Donkey (1932)
• The Man with the Hispano (1933)
• Une Vie perdue (1933)
• ou le triomphe de la médecine (1933)
• Le Paquebot Tenacity (1934)
• Runaway Ladies (1934)
• Les Affaires publiques (1934)
• Le Voyage imprévu (1934)
• L'Aventurier (1934)
• Maria Chapdelaine (1934)
• Le Clown Bux (1935)
• Quand minuit sonnera (1935)
• La Bandera (1935)
• (1935)
• L'Homme sans cœur (1936)
• Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936)
• La Garçonne (1936)
• Klokslag twaalf (1936)
• Les Bas-fonds (1936)
• Vive la vie (1937)
• La Femme du bout du monde (1937)
• The Man of the Hour (1937)
• Nuits de feu (1937)
• De Man zonder hart (1937)
• Le Dernier tournant (1939)

1940s[]

• Cristobal's Gold (1940)
• L'Épouvantail (1943)
• Les Passagers de la Grande Ourse (1943)
• Untel père et fils (1943)
• Strange Inheritance (1943, non-crédité)
• Madame et le mort (1943)
• Le Voleur de paratonnerres (1944)
• (1945)
• Girl with Grey Eyes (1945)
• The Captain (1946)
• Impasse (1946)
• Once is Enough (1946)
• Macadam (1946)
• (1947)
• Pour une nuit d'amour (1947)
• Le Diable souffle (1947)
• Les Frères Bouquinquant (1948)
• La Carcasse et le tord-cou (1948)
• Le Point du Jour (1949)
• Rendez-vous de juillet (1949)
• The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1949)

1950s[]

• Maître après Dieu (1951)
• Ein Lächeln in Sturm (1951)
• Sous le ciel de Paris (1951)
• Les Poussières (1953)
• Je suis un mouchard (1953)
• Paris mon copain (1954)
• Paris (1954)
• Station 307 (1954)
• Touchez pas au grisbi (1954)
• La Rafle est pour ce soir (1954)
• Futures vedettes, directed by Marc Allégret, (1955), composer and actor (playing a piano teacher)
• Le Rendez-vous des quais (1955)
• Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (1954)
• La Soupe à la grimace (1955)
• Sur le banc (1955)
• Deadlier Than the Male (1956)
• La Vie est belle (1956)
• Les Lumières du soir (1956)
• Notre-Dame – Cathédrale de Paris (1957)
• Pot-Bouille (1957)
• (1958)
• Neither Seen Nor Recognized (1958)
• Be Beautiful But Shut Up (1958)
• The Female (1959)
• La Création du monde (1959)
• An Angel on Wheels (1959)
• Arrêtez le massacre (1959)

1960s[]

• The Nabob Affair (1960)
• La Revenante (1960)
• Pantalaskas (1960)
• (1961)
•  [fr] (1961)
• Quatre-vingt-treize (1962, TV)
• Le Match (1964, TV)
• Our Agent Tiger (1965)
• Merlusse (1965, TV)
• A la belle étoile (1966)
• Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
• Mouchette (1967)
• Le Golem (1967, TV)
• Benjamin (1968)
• A Gentle Woman (1969)

1970s[]

• Reportages sur un squelette ou Masques et bergamasques (1970, TV)
• The Demise of Father Mouret (1970)
• The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1970, TV)
• La Cavale (1971)
• (1972, TV)
• Féminin-féminin (1973)
• Les Roses de Manara (1976, TV)
• Duelle (1976)
• Inutile d'envoyer la photo (1977)

1980s[]

• Square X (1981)
• (1982)
• Le Crime d'amour (1982)

Stage works[]

• le village blanc ou Olive chez les nègres (1926 opera)

References[]

External links[]

• Jean Wiener at IMDb