Editing Jacques Loussier (section)

== Compositions ==
Loussier composed the music for over 100 films, made for cinema and television series,<ref name="Sampson" /><ref name="Die Zeit" /> beginning with ''The Happy Sixties'' in 1963. These included the scores for the films ''[[Heaven on One's Head]]'' (1965), ''[[Living It Up (1966 film)|À Belles Dents]]'' (1966), ''[[The Killing Game (1967 film)|The Killing Game]]'' (1967), ''[[Dark of the Sun]]'' (1968), ''[[Monique (film)|Monique]]'' (1970) and ''[[Der Mann, der sich in Luft auflöste|The Man Who Went Up in Smoke]]'' (1980), the theme tune for the popular 1960s French TV series ''[[Thierry la Fronde]]'',<ref name="Monde" /> and the original sign-on music for ''La 3e chaîne'', the predecessor television channel to [[France 3]].<ref name="Lewis" />

Loussier also composed a trumpet concerto,<ref name="Sampson" /> two violin concertos,<ref name="Barnett" /> and music for a ballet, among other pieces.<ref name="Sampson" /> His [[Mass (music)|Mass]], ''Lumières: Messe Baroque du 21e Siècle'' (''Lights: A Baroque Mass of the 21st Century''), has been compared to [[Leonard Bernstein]]'s ''[[Mass (Bernstein)|Mass]]''.<ref name="Lewis" />