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Clement Doucet
Between 1925 and 1937 they recorded around 100 sides of 78 rpm discs.
Doucet's monstrous talent and rigorous training enabled him to play impressive jazz and blues as well as dance and classical pieces. He was probably best known for Chopinata, a pot-pourri of Chopin pieces played in 2/4 time; he also recorded similar takes on Liszt, Wagner and Grieg. As a soloist he was an elegant and skilled accompanist to a number of leading French singers of the day. His accompaniment to Jean Renoir's silent film "Charleston Parade" (1927) was famous in its day but was never recorded.
After the second world war Wiener continued a musical career as a broadcaster and composer of film music, but Doucet, who had not wanted to be a musician anyway, never entered a studio again and returned to Brussels where he died in obscurity in 1950.
His recorded non-classical legacy with Wiener comprises around 60 instrumental sides and 11 vocal accompaniments, plus a dozen solos, a handful of vocal accompaniments solo and some 50 piano-rolls.