Jean Wiener

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1896-03-19 (86 years old)

Deathday

1982-06-08

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Jean Wiener

Biography

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 ...

Acting

1939

Behind the Facade

as Pianist of the “Perroquet” (uncredited)

1943

The Heart of a Nation

as (uncredited)

1955

School for Love

as Le professeur de piano

1959

1976

Duelle

as Au piano

1922

1965

Lady L

as Krajewski

Production

1967

Mouchette

as Original Music Composer

1937

1934

1934

1936

Quand minuit sonnera

as Original Music Composer

1937

L'Homme sans cœur

as Original Music Composer

1935

1935

La Bandera

as Original Music Composer

1962

Quatrevingt-treize

as Sound Director

1939

1954

The Count of Monte Cristo

as Original Music Composer

1943

Le Voyageur de la Toussaint

as Original Music Composer

1951

Under the Paris Sky

as Original Music Composer

1936

The Crime of Monsieur Lange

as Original Music Composer

1925

The Crazy Ray

as Original Music Composer

1949

L'Escadron blanc

as Original Music Composer

1949

Rendezvous in July

as Original Music Composer

1949

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

as Original Music Composer

1949

The Mark Of The Day

as Original Music Composer

1950

The Century Is Fifty

as Original Music Composer

1967

The Golem

as Original Music Composer

1966

Au Hasard Balthazar

as Original Music Composer

1965

Our Agent Tiger

as Original Music Composer

1960

Pantalaskas

as Original Music Composer

1958

A Woman Like Satan

as Original Music Composer

1958

Be Beautiful and Shut Up

as Original Music Composer

1958

Neither Seen Nor Recognized

as Original Music Composer

1958

Seventh Heaven

as Original Music Composer

1957

Lovers of Paris

as Original Music Composer

1957

La Garçonne

as Original Music Composer

1987

L'âge de Monsieur est avancé

as Original Music Composer

1982

Le Crime d'amour

as Original Music Composer

1982

Love Letters in Somalia

as Original Music Composer

1971

On the Lam

as Original Music Composer

1974

The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir

as Original Music Composer

1970

The Demise of Father Mouret

as Original Music Composer

1969

God Chose Paris

as Original Music Composer

1957

Notre Dame, cathédrale de Paris

as Original Music Composer

1968

The Diary of an Innocent Boy

as Original Music Composer

1969

A Gentle Woman

as Original Music Composer

1936

1954

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

as Original Music Composer

1937

Nights of Fire

as Original Music Composer

1970

Les Ajoncs

as Music

1934

Maria Chapdelaine

as Original Music Composer

1955

Station 307

as Original Music Composer

1936

The Tomboy

as Music

1938

The Woman at the End of the World

as Original Music Composer

1940

Cristobal's Gold

as Original Music Composer

1967

Les filous

as Original Music Composer

1952

Forgotten Stones

as Original Music Composer

1944

The Lightning Rod Thief

as Original Music Composer

1943

The Passengers of Ursa Major

as Original Music Composer

1943

The Scarecrow

as Original Music Composer

1938

Le Messager de la lumière

as Original Music Composer

1935

Phénomènes électriques

as Original Music Composer

1947

Panic

as Original Music Composer

1937

1953

Dust of Life

as Original Music Composer

1955

1933

1969

1936

1965

Merlusse

as Original Music Composer

1933

The Man with the Hispano

as Original Music Composer

1946

Back Streets of Paris

as Original Music Composer

1939

The Last Turning

as Original Music Composer

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