The clarinet quintet is dedicated to my most influential composition teacher, André Hajdu, and includes a paraphrase from his song based on a text from the Mishnah. This is one of my only works based on a strict seria of pitches, yet a sense of modality is present throughout. The two poles, modal and serial, gradually coincide, and at the end, the modality prevails – at a certain point, the music reaches almost a “Klezmer” sound, paraphrasing the original Hajdu tune. 

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—Mátti Kovler