Jean Wiener
Compositore, Attore
19 marzo 1896 — 8 giugno 1982 (86 anni)
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.
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.
Filmografia
| 1990 | Rendez-vous of the Docks · as Composer |
| 1982 | Le crime d'amour · as Original Music Composer |
| 1982 | Lettres d'amour en Somalie · as Original Music Composer |
| 1973 | Feminine Feminine · as Composer |
| 1972 | Les gens de Mogador · as Composer |
| 1971 | The Man Who Laughs · as Composer |
| 1971 | On the Lam · as Original Music Composer |
| 1970 | The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir · as Original Music Composer |
| 1970 | The Demise of Father Mouret · as Original Music Composer |
| 1969 | A Gentle Woman · as Original Music Composer |
| 1968 | The Diary of an Innocent Boy · as Original Music Composer |
| 1967 | Révolution d'octobre · as Composer |
| 1967 | Mouchette · as Original Music Composer |
| 1966 | Au hasard Balthazar · as Original Music Composer |
| 1966 | At the Theater Tonight · as Composer |
| 1965 | Our Agent Tiger · as Original Music Composer |
| 1961 | Midnight Folly · as Composer |
| 1959 | An Angel on Wheels · as Composer |
| 1958 | The Female · as Original Music Composer |
| 1958 | Be Beautiful But Shut Up · as Original Music Composer |
| 1958 | Neither Seen Nor Recognized · as Original Music Composer |
| 1958 | The Creation of the World · as Composer |
| 1958 | Seventh Heaven · as Original Music Composer |
| 1957 | Lovers of Paris · as Original Music Composer |
| 1957 | La garçonne · as Original Music Composer |
| 1956 | |
| 1955 | School for Love · as Original Music Composer |
| 1954 | La soupe à la grimace · as Composer |
| 1954 | Sur le banc · as Composer |
| 1954 | Le comte de Monte-Cristo: La vengeance · as Composer |
| 1954 | Touchez pas au grisbi · as Original Music Composer |
| 1954 | The Count of Monte Cristo · as Original Music Composer |
| 1953 | Les poussières · as Original Music Composer |
| 1953 | |
| 1951 | Under the Paris Sky · as Original Music Composer |
| 1951 | Skipper Next to God · as Composer |
| 1949 | Rendezvous in July · as Original Music Composer |
| 1949 | Le parfum de la dame en noir · as Original Music Composer |
| 1949 | The Mark of the Day · as Original Music Composer |
| 1947 | Passionnelle · as Composer |
| 1946 | Panique · as Original Music Composer |
| 1946 | Back Streets of Paris · as Original Music Composer |
| 1946 | Patrie · as Composer |
| 1946 | Once Is Enough · as Composer |
| 1946 | The Scarecrow · as Original Music Composer |
| 1946 | Le voleur de paratonnerres · as Original Music Composer |
| 1945 | Girl with Grey Eyes · as Composer |
| 1945 | Le père Goriot · as Composer |
| 1943 | Les passagers de la Grande Ourse · as Original Music Composer |
| 1943 | |
| 1943 | Le voyageur de la Toussaint · as Original Music Composer |
| 1940 | Cristobal's Gold · as Original Music Composer |
| 1939 | The Last Turning · as Original Music Composer |
| 1939 | |
| 1938 | The Woman from the End of the World · as Original Music Composer |
| 1937 | The Living Corpse · as Original Music Composer |
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| 1936 | |
| 1936 | |
| 1936 | Rose · as Composer |
| 1936 | The Crime of Monsieur Lange · as Original Music Composer |
| 1935 | Flight Into Darkness · as Composer |
| 1935 | La bandera · as Original Music Composer |
| 1934 | |
| 1934 | Maria Chapdelaine · as Original Music Composer |
| 1934 | Jeanne · as Composer |
| 1934 | |
| 1933 | L'homme à l'Hispano · as Original Music Composer |
| 1932 | L'âne de Buridan · as Composer |
| 1925 | Paris Asleep · as Original Music Composer |
| 1922 |
| 1982 | Le crime d'amour · as La Pianiste |
| 1976 | Duelle · as Au Piano |
| 1972 | Les gens de Mogador · as Le Pianiste Du Cinéma |
| 1970 | |
| 1966 | At the Theater Tonight · as Le Pianiste |
| 1965 | Lady L · as Krajewski |
| 1955 | School for Love · as Piano Teacher (uncredited) |
| 1943 | The Heart of a Nation · as (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Derrière la façade · as Pianist Of The “perroquet” (uncredited) |
| 1937 | The Man of the Hour · as Le Pianiste À La Répétition |
| 1922 | The Woman from Nowhere · as Le Pianiste |
| 1972 | Midi Trente · as Self |
| 1969 | Les deux coquines · as Sound |
| 1933 | Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine · as Sound Director |