A GRIEVING mum made an incredible discovery in her son’s notebook after the 12-year-old died in a freak accident.

Kyan Pennell died on January 31 after getting caught between a trailer and a gate at the family home in Tuchekoi, southeast of Gympie, in Queensland.

The lad had a passion for classical music and had been teaching himself the piano in the months before he died.

Kyan had started writing his own composition but he’d kept what he was doing secret from his parents.

His tragic death left the family heartbroken, Yahoo News reports

His mum Amanda though discovered an unfinished song in a notebook of Kyan’s and now she is trying to bring his music to life ahead of his funeral on Sunday.

While she has not heard the piece, she has put out an appeal on Facebook to hopefully get musicians to play what Kyan had written and send the family a recording.

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In the Facebook post, she said Kyan was composing a piece which he had labelled as being in the “modern classical” style.

"I never heard what he was composing. Is there anyone that can read music and play it and send it to us?” she asked. “It would mean the world to us to hear his composition."

Amanda said Kyan had dreamed of becoming a concert pianist and added he had spent “every waking hour” on the piano he had been saving up to buy.

In an interview with 4BC radio, Kyan’s mum said the family were hoping the completed piece would shed “just a little insight” into Kyan’s mind.

'A BEAUTIFUL MIND'

Amanada added there had been “so much more” to her son “than the way he died” and she wanted to remember him for being “full of life, with a beautiful mind”.

In a tender tribute to him on Facebook, she said: "He was diagnosed with Aspergers and ADHD and used that superpower to become an incredibly beautiful and unique human who just wanted to learn and excel at everything he could, about everything there was.

"Piano was his calling, he was 12, and had 7 months of learning, teaching himself music theory, performance and composition.”

She said he had committed a number of classical pieces to memory along with some more modern pieces.

But she said he had only bothered to learn the modern pieces as a way to attract new listeners and then educate them about the wonders of classical music.

Amanda also appealed to musicians to complete the music the way Kyan had intended, with “repeated bits, a changed tempo and with light and shade”.

"He imagined it to be performed by wind and string instruments, and of course his beloved piano," she added on Facebook.

"He would have been so chuffed that all these wonderful people are now playing his music. Little did he know he was actually composing his own funeral song.”

Amanda’s Facebook post has picked up hundreds of shares as well as responses with the family receiving some “lovely renditions” of the piece.

However, she still encouraged others to contribute to his “beautiful unfinished work” and hoped other versions of his piece came through before his funeral.

'EXTREMELY HUMBLED'

She added she had been “extremely humbled” by the responses, which had helped him see “beauty through adversity”.

Kyan’s song is being performed and recorded by 16 members of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra with the hope it will be completed in time for Sunday’s funeral, according to an ABC report.

A GoFundMe page has also been set up by a family friend to "help the beautiful Pennell family out during this difficult time".

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