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Jean Wiener
Paris, France
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, wh…
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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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1987
L'Âge de Monsieur est avancé
Movie Original Music Composer
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1982
Le Crime d'amour
Movie Original Music Composer
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1982
Love Letters in Somalia
Movie Original Music Composer
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1976
Duelle (Une Quarantaine)
Movie Au piano
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1974
The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
Movie Original Music Composer
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1972
Midi trente
TV show Self
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1971
On the Lam
Movie Original Music Composer
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1971
The Wedding Ring
Movie
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1971
Samedi soir
TV show Self
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1970
The Demise of Father Mouret
Movie Original Music Composer
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1970
Les Ajoncs
Movie Music
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1969
God Chose Paris
Movie Original Music Composer
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1969
A Gentle Woman
Movie Original Music Composer
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1969
Les deux coquines
Movie Sound
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1968
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Movie Original Music Composer
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1967
Mouchette
Movie Original Music Composer
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1967
The Golem
Movie Original Music Composer
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1967
Les filous
Movie Original Music Composer
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1966
Au Hasard Balthazar
Movie Original Music Composer
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1965
Merlusse
Movie Original Music Composer
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1965
Lady L
Movie Krajewski
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1965
Our Agent Tiger
Movie Original Music Composer
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1962
Quatrevingt-treize
Movie Sound Director
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1960
Pantalaskas
Movie Original Music Composer
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1959
Stop the Massacre
Movie Pianist
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1959
Discorama
TV show Self
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1958
A Woman Like Satan
Movie Original Music Composer
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1958
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
Movie Original Music Composer
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1958
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
Movie Original Music Composer
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1958
Seventh Heaven
Movie Original Music Composer
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1957
Lovers of Paris
Movie Original Music Composer
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1957
Notre Dame, cathédrale de Paris
Movie Original Music Composer
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1957
La Garçonne
Movie Original Music Composer
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1956
Les Lumières du soir
Movie Music
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1956
Deadlier Than the Male
Movie Music
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1956
Rencontre à Varsovie
Movie Music
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1955
School for Love
Movie Piano Teacher (uncredited)
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1955
Station 307
Movie Original Music Composer
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1954
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Movie Original Music Composer
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1954
The Count of Monte Cristo
Movie Original Music Composer
