Jean Wiener
Jean Wiener was a French pianist and composer.
Life
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 brought him into the world of popular music. Already a jazz enthusiast, Wiener found fame with Doucet in the music halls 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, as well as the opening theme music for ORTF's film history program "History speechless".He was of some significance in the promotion of new music, both by his friends in the Les Six, and by composers such as Schoenberg, Berg and Webern. His compositions involve the use of jazz informed by French wit and elegance.
Stéphane Wiéner is his son ; his daughter, Elizabeth Wiener, is an actress, singer and singer-songwriter.
Jean Wiener published his memoirs in 1978 as Allegro Appassionato.
Compositions
Concert and chamber works
Wiener composed a number of concertos which included a Concerto Franco-Americain notable for its influences of jazz, a concerto that he described as Concert Pour Orchestre Et Un Piano Principal, and a concerto for accordion.His chamber music includes a sonata for cello and piano. He set a selection of Robert Desnos' Chantefables for voice and piano.
Solo piano music
His music for solo piano includes- Sonatine Syncopée
- Trois Mouvements De Musique Pour Le Piano
- Sonate N°1
- 2ème Sonatine
- Quatre petits pièces Radio
- Polka, Java and Tango
- Sonate Sans Nom
- Sonate "Démodée"
- Touchez Pas Au Grisbi
- Chicken Reel
- Pour Pierre Cornevin
- Trois moments de musique
Film scores
1920s
- La Femme de nulle part ''''
1930s
Buridan's Donkey The Man with the Hispano- Une Vie perdue '
- Knock ou le triomphe de la médecine '
- Le Paquebot Tenacity '
- Les Affaires publiques 'The Adventurer
- Maria Chapdelaine 'Bux the Clown The Slipper Episode
- La Bandera 'The Crew
- L'Homme sans cœur 'When Midnight Strikes
- Le Crime de Monsieur Lange '
- La Garçonne '
- Klokslag twaalf 'Rose
- Les Bas-fonds '
- Vive la vie 'The Man of the Hour Nuits de feu '
- De Man zonder hart 'Runaway Ladies The Woman from the End of the World
- Le Dernier tournant ''''
1940s
Cristobal's Gold- L'Épouvantail
- Les Passagers de la Grande Ourse
- Untel père et fils Strange Inheritance
- Madame et le mort
- Le Voleur de paratonnerres Father Goriot Girl with Grey Eyes The Captain Patrie
- Impasse Once is Enough
- Macadam
- Panic
- Pour une nuit d'amour
- Le Diable souffle Counter Investigation
- Les Frères Bouquinquant
- La Carcasse et le tord-cou Daybreak
- Rendez-vous de juillet The White Squadron
- ''The Perfume of the Lady in Black''
1950s
Skipper Next to God- Ein Lächeln in Sturm '
- Sous le ciel de Paris '
- Les Poussières '
- Je suis un mouchard '
- Paris mon copain '
- Paris '
- Station 307 '
- Touchez pas au grisbi
- La Rafle est pour ce soir '
- Futures vedettes, directed by Marc Allégret, ', composer and actor
- Le Rendez-vous des quais '
- Le Comte de Monte-Cristo '
- La Soupe à la grimace '
- Sur le banc '
- Deadlier Than the Male '
- La Vie est belle '
- Les Lumières du soir '
- Notre-Dame – Cathédrale de Paris '
- Pot-Bouille '
- Le Septième ciel '
- Neither Seen Nor Recognized '
- Be Beautiful But Shut Up '
- The Female '
- La Création du monde '
- An Angel on Wheels '
- Arrêtez le massacre ''''
1960s
The Nabob Affair- La Revenante '
- Pantalaskas '
- Les Bras de la nuit '
- '
- Quatre-vingt-treize '
- Le Match '
- Our Agent Tiger '
- Merlusse '
- A la belle étoile '
- Au hasard Balthazar '
- Mouchette '
- Le Golem '
- Benjamin ''''
- A Gentle Woman ''''
1970s
- Reportages sur un squelette ou Masques et bergamasques '
- The Demise of Father Mouret '
- The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir '
- La Cavale '
- Les Gens de Mogador '
- Féminin-féminin '
- Les Roses de Manara '
- Duelle '
- Inutile d'envoyer la photo ''''
1980s
- Square X '
- Lettres d'amour en Somalie '
- Le Crime d'amour ''''
Stage works
- ''le village blanc ou Olive chez les nègres''