Jean Wiener

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Jean Wiener (born March 19, 1896 in Paris , France , † June 8, 1982 ibid) was a French film composer and pianist .

Life

Jean Wiener trained at the conservatory in Paris and then worked as a pianist in silent film cinemas. From the late 1920s to 1937 he formed a successful piano duo with Clement Doucet , which recorded a number of jazz- oriented numbers in the novelty style, mostly popular jazz standards such as " Bye Bye Blackbird ", " I Can't Give You Anything but Love ”,“ I Got Rhythm ”,“ Sweet and Lowdown ”or“ Tea for Two ”for labels like Columbia , Odeon and Pathé .

Compositions for the theater were soon followed by music for movies. Wiener worked for the most important French directors of the prewar period such as Julien Duvivier , Jean Renoir and Marcel L'Herbier . In French entertainment films after the Second World War , Wiener was one of the busiest composers who served all genres with great routine.

His daughter Elisabeth Wiener, born in 1946, works as an actress.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1925: Paris qui there
  • 1936: The crime of Mr. Lange (Le Crime de Monsieur Lange)
  • 1933: Dr. Knock (Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine)
  • 1935: Company of the Lost (La Bandera)
  • 1936: The man of the day (L'Homme du jour)
  • 1936: Night asylum (Les Bas-fonds)
  • 1945: Adventure at the Royal Court (Le Capitan)
  • 1946: For a night of love (Pour une nuit d'amour)
  • 1946: Here the judiciary was wrong (Contre-enquête)
  • 1946: To the red lantern (macadam)
  • 1947: The Bouquinquant Brothers (Les Frères Bouquinquant)
  • 1947: Panic (Panique)
  • 1949: No holidays for the good Lord (Plus des vacances pour le Bon Dieu)
  • 1949: Before daybreak (Le Point du jour)
  • 1951: Under the sky of Paris (Sous le ciel de Paris coule la Seine)
  • 1950: A smile in the storm (Un sourire dans la tempête)
  • 1952: Among gangsters (Je suis un mouchard)
  • 1953: The Count of Monte Christo (Le Comte de Monte Christo: La vengeance)
  • 1954: When night falls in Paris (Touchez-pas au grisbi)
  • 1954: Whiskey, dynamite and devil women (La Soupe à la grimace)
  • 1955: Meeting at the port (Le Rendez-vous des quais)
  • 1955: Ripe on young flowers (Futures vedettes)
  • 1957: The seventh heaven (Le Septième ciel)
  • 1957: Love is mine (La Garçonne)
  • 1957: fish or meat (Ni vu, ni connu)
  • 1957: Whenever the light goes out (Pot-Bouille)
  • 1957: Be beautiful and shut up (Sois belle et tais-toi)
  • 1958: A woman like Satan (La Femme et le Pantin)
  • 1959: An angel on earth (Mademoiselle Ange) French Version
  • 1960: Nabob affair (Au voleur!)
  • 1961: Devil at midnight (Les Démons de minuit)
  • 1965: The tiger perfumes himself with dynamite (Le Tigre se parfume à la dynamite)
  • 1965: For example Balthasar (Au hasard Balthasar)
  • 1966: October Revolution (Révolution d'octobre)
  • 1967: The Golem ( Le Golem )
  • 1967: Benjamin - From the diary of a male virgin (Benjamin ou Les Mémoires d'un puceau)
  • 1969: The gentle one (Une femme douce)
  • 1970: The Sin of the Abbé Mouret (La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret)
  • 1976: Immortal Duel (Duels)

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 376.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 2, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Wiener, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1982
Place of death Paris , France