Jean Wiener

Wiener was trained at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied alongside Darius Milhaud, and worked with Erik Satie.

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,[1] under the name "Wiener et Doucet" in which they performed classical music, hot dance and jazz.

He was of some significance in the promotion of new music, both by his friends in the Les Six (Milhaud, Poulenc, etc.

His compositions involve the use of jazz informed by French wit and elegance.