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. 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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movieL'Âge de Monsieur est avancé
1987
Original Music Composer
movieLe Crime d'amour
1982
Original Music Composer
Love Letters in Somalia
1982
Original Music Composer
movieThe Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
1974
Original Music Composer
movieOn the Lam
1971
Original Music Composer
movieThe Demise of Father Mouret
1970
Original Music Composer
movieLes Ajoncs
1970
Music
movieGod Chose Paris
1969
Original Music Composer
movieA Gentle Woman
1969
Original Music Composer
movieThe Diary of an Innocent Boy
1968
Original Music Composer
movieMouchette
1967
Original Music Composer
movieThe Golem
1967
Original Music Composer
Les filous
1967
Original Music Composer
movieAu Hasard Balthazar
1966
Original Music Composer
movieMerlusse
1965
Original Music Composer
movieOur Agent Tiger
1965
Original Music Composer
movieQuatrevingt-treize
1962
Sound Director
moviePantalaskas
1960
Original Music Composer
movieA Woman Like Satan
1958
Original Music Composer
movieBe Beautiful and Shut Up
1958
Original Music Composer
movieNeither Seen Nor Recognized
1958
Original Music Composer
movieSeventh Heaven
1958
Original Music Composer
movieLovers of Paris
1957
Original Music Composer
movieNotre Dame, cathédrale de Paris
1957
Original Music Composer
movieLa Garçonne
1957
Original Music Composer
movieSchool for Love
1955
Original Music Composer
movieStation 307
1955
Original Music Composer
movieTouchez Pas au Grisbi
1954
Original Music Composer
movieThe Count of Monte Cristo
1954
Original Music Composer
movieDust of Life
1953
Original Music Composer
movieForgotten Stones
1952
Original Music Composer
movieUnder the Paris Sky
1951
Original Music Composer
movieThe Century Is Fifty
1950
Original Music Composer
movieRendezvous in July
1949
Original Music Composer
movieThe Perfume of the Lady in Black
1949
Original Music Composer
movieL'Escadron blanc
1949
Original Music Composer
movieThe Mark of the Day
1949
Original Music Composer
moviePanic
1947
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movieBack Streets of Paris
1946
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Nous continuons la France
1946
Original Music Composer
movieThe Lightning Rod Thief
1944
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movieThe Passengers of Ursa Major
1943
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movieThe Scarecrow
1943
Original Music Composer
movieLe Voyageur de la Toussaint
1943
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movieCristobal's Gold
1940
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movieThe Last Turning
1939
Original Music Composer
movieThe Woman at the End of the World
1938
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movieLe Messager de la lumière
1938
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Nights of Fire
1937
Original Music Composer
movieL'Homme sans cœur
1937
Original Music Composer
Quand minuit sonnera
1936
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movieThe Tomboy
1936
Music
movieThe Crime of Monsieur Lange
1936
Original Music Composer
movieLa Bandera
1935
Original Music Composer
moviePhénomènes électriques
1935
Original Music Composer
movieMaria Chapdelaine
1934
Original Music Composer
movieKnock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
1933
Sound Director
movieThe Man with the Hispano
1933
Original Music Composer
movieThe Crazy Ray
1925
Original Music Composer
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movieLady L
1965
Krajewski
movieStop the Massacre
1959
Pianist
tvDiscorama
1959
Self
movieSchool for Love
1955
Piano Teacher (uncredited)
movieThe Heart of a Nation
1943
(uncredited)
movieBehind the Facade
1939
Pianist of the “Perroquet” (uncredited)
movieThe Woman from Nowhere
1922
Le pianiste