---
name: "Jean Wiener"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jean-wiener"
fi1m_id: "jean-wiener"
imdb_id: "nm0927484"
tmdb_id: 36997
wikidata_id: "Q553384"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "19 March 1896"
died: "8 June 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T16:14:28.548083+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Jean Wiener

## Identity

Jean Wiener

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jean-wiener
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jean-wiener
- **IMDb ID:** nm0927484
- **TMDB ID:** 36997
- **Wikidata ID:** Q553384
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Wiener, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q553384, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0927484/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/36997

Composer. Born 19 March 1896 in Paris, France. Died 8 June 1982.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 19 March 1896, Paris, France
- **Died:** 8 June 1982
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Wiener, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q553384, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0927484/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/36997

## Biography

Jean Wiener (or Wiéner) was a French pianist and composer. Born in Paris in 1896, he trained at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied alongside Darius Milhaud and worked with Erik Satie. He later became known as a concert pianist and impresario, serving as house pianist at the Gaya bar and Le Boeuf sur le Toit.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Wiener performed in a popular piano duo with Clément Doucet under the name Wiener et Doucet, recording classical, dance and jazz pieces until 1937. After the Second World War he focused on composition, writing scores for more than 300 films and the opening theme for the ORTF television series *Histoires sans paroles*. His film credits include *Au Hasard Balthazar* (1966), *Mouchette* (1967) and *A Gentle Woman* (1969). His daughter Elizabeth Wiener became an actress and singer. Wiener published his memoirs, *Allegro Appassionato*, in 1978 and died in Paris in 1982.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, discogs.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Au Hasard Balthazar* (1966), Fi1m 90, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/au-hasard-balthazar.md)

## Complete filmography (81)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *L'Âge de Monsieur est avancé* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *Le Crime d'amour* (1982), Original Music Composer
- *Love Letters in Somalia* (1982), Original Music Composer
- *Duelle (Une Quarantaine)* (1976), as Au piano
- *The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir* (1974), Original Music Composer
- *On the Lam* (1971), Original Music Composer
- *The Wedding Ring* (1971), Actor
- *The Demise of Father Mouret* (1970), Original Music Composer
- *Les Ajoncs* (1970), Music
- *God Chose Paris* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *A Gentle Woman* (1969), Original Music Composer
- *Les deux coquines* (1969), Sound
- *The Diary of an Innocent Boy* (1968), Original Music Composer
- *Mouchette* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *The Golem* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *Les filous* (1967), Original Music Composer
- *Au Hasard Balthazar* (1966), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/au-hasard-balthazar.md)
- *Merlusse* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Lady L* (1965), as Krajewski
- *Our Agent Tiger* (1965), Original Music Composer
- *Quatrevingt-treize* (1962), Sound Director
- *Pantalaskas* (1960), Original Music Composer
- *Stop the Massacre* (1959), as Pianist
- *A Woman Like Satan* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Be Beautiful and Shut Up* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Neither Seen Nor Recognized* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Seventh Heaven* (1958), Original Music Composer
- *Lovers of Paris* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Notre Dame, cathédrale de Paris* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *La Garçonne* (1957), Original Music Composer
- *Les Lumières du soir* (1956), Music
- *Deadlier Than the Male* (1956), Music
- *Rencontre à Varsovie* (1956), Music
- *School for Love* (1955), as Piano Teacher (uncredited) · Original Music Composer
- *Station 307* (1955), Original Music Composer
- *Touchez Pas au Grisbi* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *The Count of Monte Cristo* (1954), Original Music Composer
- *Dust of Life* (1953), Original Music Composer
- *Je suis un mouchard* (1953), Music
- *Forgotten Stones* (1952), Original Music Composer
- *Under the Paris Sky* (1951), Original Music Composer
- *The Century Is Fifty* (1950), Original Music Composer
- *Rendezvous in July* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *The Perfume of the Lady in Black* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *L'Escadron blanc* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *The Mark of the Day* (1949), Original Music Composer
- *Zanzabelle in Paris* (1949), Music
- *L'Homme Que Nous Aimons Le Plus* (1949), Music
- *Panic* (1947), Original Music Composer
- *Back Streets of Paris* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *Nous continuons la France* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *The Lightning Rod Thief* (1944), Original Music Composer
- *The Passengers of Ursa Major* (1943), Original Music Composer
- *The Scarecrow* (1943), Original Music Composer
- *Le Voyageur de la Toussaint* (1943), Original Music Composer
- *The Heart of a Nation* (1943), as (uncredited) · Music
- *Cristobal's Gold* (1940), Original Music Composer
- *The Last Turning* (1939), Original Music Composer
- *Behind the Facade* (1939), as Pianist of the “Perroquet” (uncredited) · Music
- *The Woman at the End of the World* (1938), Original Music Composer
- *Le Messager de la lumière* (1938), Original Music Composer
- *De man zonder hart* (1937), Music
- *Nights of Fire* (1937), Original Music Composer
- *L'Homme sans cœur* (1937), Original Music Composer
- *The Man of the Day* (1937), Music
- *The Lower Depths* (1936), Music
- *Quand minuit sonnera* (1936), Original Music Composer
- *Klokslag twaalf* (1936), Music
- *The Tomboy* (1936), Music
- *The Crime of Monsieur Lange* (1936), Original Music Composer
- *Le Voyage imprévu* (1935), Music
- *La Bandera* (1935), Original Music Composer
- *Phénomènes électriques* (1935), Original Music Composer
- *The Adventurer* (1934), Music
- *Maria Chapdelaine* (1934), Original Music Composer
- *S. S. Tenacity* (1934), Music
- *Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine* (1933), Sound Director
- *Une vie perdue* (1933), Music
- *The Man with the Hispano* (1933), Original Music Composer
- *The Crazy Ray* (1925), Original Music Composer
- *The Woman from Nowhere* (1922), as Le pianiste · Music

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