Ninth Symphony and a near-complete book on Schubert and the piano. He also left an unfinished autobiography entitled Laughter in the Dark. Music As a composer, Truscott perfected an expanded tonal idiom of contrapuntal intricacy and sometimes terse, no-nonsense expression, but a mystical streak sometimes emerges, as in the finale to his only completed Symphony, and his Elegy for string orchestra, composed in 1944 and never performed in his lifetime, is an utterance of astonishing romantic intensity. Beethoven, Schubert, Medtner and Nielsen are among obvious influences which were subsumed into an individual musical language. He wrote a fairly small amount of vocal and orchestral music, though apart from the Symphony in E major several other symphonies were either lost or remained unfinished. He also composed some notable chamber music, including sonatas for clarinet and piano, cello and piano, and a set of sonatas for solo violin. But the bulk of his output was for his own instrument, the piano, and this includes no less than 22 sonatas, some of epic length and others of pithy concision. He also made completions of several of Schubert's unfinished piano sonatas. Selected list of works Orchestral: Grasmere Symphony (1938; lost) Elegy for string orchestra (1944) Symphony in E major (1949–50) Symphony in E minor (1951; unfinished, inscribed 'for Harry Newstone', 60pp of full score) Fantasia for string orchestra (1961; original titled A window on infinity) Prelude, for winds and double bass (1965, from an unfinished suite) Suite in G major (1966) Chamber: Piano Quintet (c.1930) 2 String Quartets (1944, 1945) Trio in A major for flute, violin and viola (1950) 3 Sonatas for clarinet and piano (1959, 1965, 1966) 3 Sonatas for violin and piano Sonata(s) for violin unaccompanied (1946) Sonata for oboe and piano (1965) Sonata for horn (or cor anglais) and piano (1975–81) Sonata for cello and piano (1982–87) Piano: 22 Piano Sonatas (1940–1982) 3 Suites for piano (1949–1966) 2 Preludes and Fugues (1957) Variations and Fugue in B minor on an original theme (1967) Organ: Toccata in A minor (1956) Trio-Sonata in E flat major (1971) Selected list of writings 'The Importance of Hans Pfitzner: I – The Palestrina Preludes', Music Survey no. 1, Autumn 1947, pp. 13–15 'The Importance of Hans Pfitzner: II – The Chamber Music', Music Survey no. 2, Winter 1948, pp. 37–42 'The Music of Edmund Rubbra', Listener, 9 July 1964, p. 70 'Beethoven's Late String Quartets',