Jean Wiener
Jean Wiéner was a duo-pianist and a prominent figure among early French film composers. Wiéner was an early enthusiast of composer Darius Milhaud, Jean Cocteau, and Les Six, and could be seen in their company with frequency in the early '30s. His career as a film composer actually began in the silent period through scoring Louis Delluc's avant-garde film La Femme de Nulle Part (The Woman from Nowhere, 1922). Wiéner became disillusioned with the avant-garde, and after breaking with Cocteau's circle, came to public prominence as a member of a popular piano duet with Belgian pianist Clement Doucet. From 1924 to 1939, Wiéner and Doucet recorded a mixture of popular dance hits, jazz, and light classical favorites and played some 2,000 concerts. With the outbreak of the Second World War, Doucet dropped out of the concert scene, eventually dying in 1950. Without his partner, Wiéner decided to give up the concert circuit and devote his energies exclusively to film scoring. Among the film directors Wiéner worked with closely was Jean Renoir, particularly in the 1930s, and on Renoir's last film, Le Petite Théatre de Jean Renoir (1971); Julien Duvivier; and Robert Bresson.
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Diskografie
11 Album, -en • Geordnet nach Bestseller
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Satie: Piano Works
Jean-Joël Barbier, Jean Wiener
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Decca Records France am 27.03.2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mozart: Sonata in D major for Two Pianos, K.448
Klassik - Erschienen bei Infinity am 02.02.2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Jean Wiener joue Bach
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Decca Records France am 17.09.1976
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Erik Satie, morceaux choisis
Jean-Joël Barbier, Jean Wiener, Orchestre National de France, Manuel Rosenthal
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Decca Records France am 17.09.2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Improvisations au piano (1950-1964)
Klassik - Erschienen bei INA Mémoire vive am 01.09.1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Wiener : Concertos & sonates
André Girard, Gilbert Roussel, Jean Wiener, Pierre Pénassou, Jacqueline Robin
Instrumentalmusik - Erschienen bei Arion am 01.01.2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Les chantefleurs (Poèmes de Robert Desnos et musique de Jean Wiener / Mono version) (Mono version)
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1954
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Melchior et Balthazar (Mono Version)
Französischer Chanson - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1955
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Jean Wiener joue Bach
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Division Decca Records France am 17.09.1976
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Gabriel Fauré
Jean Wiener, Clément Doucet, Kathleen Long
Klassik - Erschienen bei Altair am 28.08.2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Le crime d'amour (Bande originale du film)
Original Soundtrack - Erschienen bei Music Box Records am 24.11.1982
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo