Epitaph was written as a hommage to the great Finnish modernist composer Usko Meriläinen (1930-2004) for a concert of his compositions. This work for flute and piano is a miniature, lasting less than two minutes. The piano part makes a short quote of Meriläinen's 2nd Piano Concerto (1969); this acts as a fingerprint of a composer whose music Räihälä admires a lot.