Jean Wiener’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro French musician
Was Musician 
Composer 
Pianist 
Film score composer 
From France 
Type Film, TV, Stage & Radio 
Music 
Gender male
Birth 19 March 1896, Paris
Death 8 June 1982, Paris
(aged 86 years)
Family
Spouse: Suzanne de Troye

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

Life

Wiener was trained at the Conservatoire in 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 duet, under the name “Wiener and Doucet” in which they performed classical music, hot dance and jazz. The two friends recorded many duets 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.

Compositions

Film scores

1920s

  • La Femme de nulle part (1922)

1930s

  • Buridan’s Donkey (1932)
  • L’Homme à l’Hispano (1933)
  • Une Vie perdue (1933)
  • Knock 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)
  • L’Équipage (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

  • L’Or de Cristobal (1940)
  • L’Épouvantail (1943)
  • Les Passagers de la Grande Ourse (1943)
  • Untel père et fils (1943)
  • Le Voyageur de la Toussaint (1943, non crédité)
  • Madame et le mort (1943)
  • Le Voleur de paratonnerres (1944)
  • Le Père Goriot (1945)
  • La Fille aux yeux gris (1945)
  • The Captain (1946)
  • Impasse (1946)
  • Once is Enough (1946)
  • Macadam (1946)
  • Panique (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)

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)
  • Voici le temps des assassins (1956)
  • La Vie est belle (1956)
  • Les Lumières du soir (1956)
  • Notre-Dame – Cathédrale de Paris (1957)
  • Pot-Bouille (1957)
  • Le Septième ciel (1958)
  • Neither Seen Nor Recognized (1958)
  • Sois belle et tais-toi (1958)
  • La Femme et le Pantin (1959)
  • La Création du monde (1959)
  • Ein Engel auf Erden (1959)
  • Arrêtez le massacre (1959)

1960s

  • The Nabob Affair (1960)
  • La Revenante (1960)
  • Pantalaskas (1960)
  • Les Bras de la nuit (1961)
  • Midnight Folly (fr) (1961)
  • Quatre-vingt-treize (1962, TV)
  • Le Match (1964, TV)
  • Le Tigre se parfume à la dynamite (1965)
  • Merlusse (1965, TV)
  • A la belle étoile (1966)
  • Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
  • Mouchette (1967)
  • Le Golem (1967, TV)
  • Une Femme douce (1969)

1970s

  • Reportages sur un squelette ou Masques et bergamasques (1970, TV)
  • La Faute de l’abbé Mouret (1970)
  • Le petit théâtre de Jean Renoir (1970, TV)
  • La Cavale (1971)
  • Les Gens de Mogador (1972, TV)
  • Féminin-féminin (1973)
  • Les Roses de Manara (1976, TV)
  • Duelle – une quarantaine(1976)
  • Inutile d’envoyer la photo (1977)

1980s

  • Square X (1981)
  • Lettres d’amour en Somalie (1982)
  • Le Crime d’amour (1982)

Stage works

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