serial The Myth Makers. Searle also contributed humorous compositions to some of the Hoffnung Music Festivals, including a setting of Young Lochinvar and a parody of serialism, Punkt Kontrapunkt. Searle taught throughout his life; his notable students included Hugh Davidson, Brian Elias, Michael Finnissy, Jonathan Elias, Nicola LeFanu, Alistair Hinton, Geoffrey King, and Graham Newcater and Wolfgang Rihm. Searle wrote the monographs Twentieth Century Counterpoint and The Music of Franz Liszt. He also developed the most authoritative catalogue of Liszt's works, which are frequently identified using Searle's numbering system, abbreviated as "S.". Searle married Fiona Nicholson in 1960. He died in London in 1982, aged 66. List of works Source Operas The Diary of a Madman (1958) The Photo of the Colonel (1963–64) Hamlet (1964–68) Ballets Noctambules (1956) The Great Peacock (1957–58) Dualities (1963) Orchestral Variations on an Elizabethan Theme, jointly composed with Lennox Berkeley, Benjamin Britten, Arthur Oldham, Michael Tippett and William Walton (1953) Symphony No. 1 (1953) Symphony No. 2 (1956–58) Symphony No. 3 (1959–60) Symphony No. 4 (1961–62) Symphony No. 5 (1964) Sinfonietta (1968–69) Labyrinth (1971) Three Ages (1982) Piano concertos Piano Concerto No. 1 (1944) Piano Concerto No. 2 (1955) Suites Suite No. 1 for Strings (1942) Suite No. 2 (1943) Night Music (1943) Poem for 22 Strings (1950) Concertante for Piano, Strings and Percussion (1954) Scherzi (1964) Hamlet Suite (1968) Zodiac Variations (1970) Tamesis (1979) Chorus and instruments Gold Coast Customs (1947–49) for speakers, male chorus and orchestra The Riverrun (Joyce) (1951) for speakers and orchestra The Shadow of Cain (1952) for speakers, male chorus and orchestra Jerusalem (1970) for speakers, tenor, chorus and orchestra My Beloved Spake (1976) for chorus and organ Dr Faustus (1977) for solo woman, chorus and orchestra Voice and orchestra 3 Songs of Jocelyn Brooke (1954) for high voice and ensemble Oxus (1967) for tenor and orchestra Contemplations (1975) for mezzo-soprano and orchestra Kubla Khan (1973) for tenor and orchestra Unaccompanied chorus The Canticle of the Rose (Sitwell, 1965) Rhyme Rude to My Pride (1974) for male chorus Chamber music Bassoon Quintet (1945) Intermezzo for 11 Instruments (1946) Quartet for Clarinet, Bassoon, Violin and Viola, Op. 12 (1948; a musical palindrome) Passacaglietta in nomine Arnold Schoenberg (1949) for string quartet Gondoliera (1950) for celesta and piano 3 Cat Poems (1951/53): "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" for speaker, flute, cello and guitar and "Two Practical Cats" for speaker, flute/piccolo, cello and