Jean Wiener
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Born 1896-03-19
Died 1982-06-08
Paris, France
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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.
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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Au Hasard Balthazar
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
La Garçonne
The Count of Monte Cristo
A Gentle Woman
Mouchette
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Les Ajoncs
School for Love
The Adventurer
Klokslag twaalf
Seventh Heaven
The Woman from Nowhere
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Love Letters in Somalia
Les filous
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Rendezvous in July
Dust of Life
Deadlier Than the Male
A Woman Like Satan
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Forgotten Stones
La Bandera
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God Chose Paris
L'Âge de Monsieur est avancé
Les Lumières du soir
The Crazy Ray
The Tomboy
S. S. Tenacity
The Mark of the Day
Under the Paris Sky
Back Streets of Paris
Lovers of Paris
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Cristobal's Gold
Our Agent Tiger
Station 307
Panic
Merlusse
On the Lam
Behind the Facade
The Wedding Ring
The Passengers of Ursa Major
Le Crime d'amour
L'Homme sans cœur
The Heart of a Nation
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
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