Jean Wiener
Known for: Sound
Born: March 19, 1896
Died: June 8, 1982
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
81 movies · 4 TV shows, newest first
6.0
L'Âge de Monsieur est avancé
1987
4.9
Le Crime d'amour
19823.0
Love Letters in Somalia
1982
6.9
Duelle (Une Quarantaine)
1976
6.8
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
1974
6.0
Midi trente
1972
6.3
On the Lam
1971
6.1
The Wedding Ring
19716.0
Samedi soir
1971
4.3
The Demise of Father Mouret
1970
8.5
Les Ajoncs
1970
6.5
God Chose Paris
1969
6.8
A Gentle Woman
1969NR
Les deux coquines
1969
6.0
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
1968
7.4
Mouchette
1967
6.2
The Golem
19677.0
Les filous
1967
7.5
Au Hasard Balthazar
1966
10.0
Merlusse
1965
5.8
Lady L
1965
4.2
Our Agent Tiger
1965
9.0
Quatrevingt-treize
1962
10.0
Pantalaskas
1960
9.0
Stop the Massacre
1959
8.0
Discorama
1959
5.4
A Woman Like Satan
1958
5.6
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
1958
6.8
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
1958
5.9
Seventh Heaven
1958
6.1
Lovers of Paris
1957
7.5
Notre Dame, cathédrale de Paris
1957
5.5
La Garçonne
1957
10.0
Les Lumières du soir
1956
7.2
Deadlier Than the Male
1956
NR
Rencontre à Varsovie
1956
5.1
School for Love
1955
10.0
Station 307
1955
7.2
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
1954
6.7
The Count of Monte Cristo
1954
7.5
Dust of Life
1953
10.0
Je suis un mouchard
1953
NR
La Joie de vivre
1952
NR
Forgotten Stones
1952
7.5
Under the Paris Sky
1951
7.0
The Century Is Fifty
1950
6.1
Rendezvous in July
1949
7.5
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
1949
6.5
L'Escadron blanc
1949
7.0
The Mark of the Day
1949NR
Zanzabelle in Paris
1949
NR
L'Homme Que Nous Aimons Le Plus
1949
7.3
Panic
1947
6.2
Back Streets of Paris
1946NR
Nous continuons la France
1946
6.5
The Lightning Rod Thief
1944
6.2
The Passengers of Ursa Major
1943
6.5
The Scarecrow
1943
7.4
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
1943
5.5
The Heart of a Nation
1943
9.0
Cristobal's Gold
1940
6.5
The Last Turning
1939
7.7
Behind the Facade
1939
6.1
The Woman at the End of the World
1938
6.8
Le Messager de la lumière
1938
8.0
De man zonder hart
19377.3
Nights of Fire
1937
7.0
L'Homme sans cœur
1937
6.3
The Man of the Day
1937
7.2
The Lower Depths
19369.0
Quand minuit sonnera
1936
6.5
Klokslag twaalf
1936
3.9
The Tomboy
1936
7.1
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
1936
8.0
Le Voyage imprévu
1935
5.6
La Bandera
1935
7.0
Phénomènes électriques
1935
6.3
The Adventurer
1934
7.9
Maria Chapdelaine
1934
8.0
S. S. Tenacity
1934
8.3
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
19338.0
Une vie perdue
1933
7.0
The Man with the Hispano
1933
6.7
The Crazy Ray
1925
5.7
The Woman from Nowhere
1922