This piece was written in two days (August 26/27, 2001). That past weekend, I had been driving my grandmother to our cottage and on the radio, the Rachmaninov Piano Preludes were playing. Later that day, we were talking about them and she asked me "Can you write a piano prelude with all the notes?" (What she was asking was if I could write the whole piece with the full harmony and everything.). I told her that I could, and she said that it wasn't intended to be done right away, if at all.

I guess I unconsciously took this as a challenge, and when I returned home, set to work on my first Piano Prelude, "Kellot". It's firmly set in the key of G minor and is in 12/8 time.

The piece revolves around three bass lines of increasing complexity. The first, more funereal one at the beginning is from whence the name of the work comes. It's meant to depict funeral bells.

 Listen to "Kellot"