Dennis Báthory-Kitsz         composer - engraver - author - editor - photographer


Dennis Bathory-Kitsz

365-Day Composition Project
The "We Are All Mozart" (WAAM) Project

Indexed Catalog of Music
Now including the WAAM compositions

Performance & Event Calendar Below

Find Everything in the Big List
Also find the WAAM compositions here

The Big List is the compendium of all my music, including published scores, demos, listings of inked (but not yet PDF'ed) scores, corresponding ASCAP numbers for those who will be performing, and even an index of lost and destroyed pieces. Your first stop for compositional compulsion. You can also use the score search at Westleaf Edition (not updated since late 2006).

Indexed Catalog of Music
Now including the WAAM compositions

Listen to over 300 compositions in Midi or audio and download the scores and parts for performance:
  Solo Music -- 40+ pieces for clarinet, violin, flute, tuba, recorder, contrabass, bassoon, cello, euphonium, organ, horn, MalletKat...
  Keyboard Music -- 55+ compositions from easy student pieces to really tough monsters.
  Chamber Music -- 185+ cool movements for small ensembles of all types, from one through 10 players. Organized by two, three, four, or five and more instruments.
  Orchestra and Band Music -- 25+ compositions for big groups, many with sets of parts ... even some marches!
  Vocal and Choral Music -- 50+ pieces, secular and sacred, solo voice through large chorus
  Performance Works -- 25+ works, with more in an upcoming limited-edition collection
  Electronic Pieces -- 50+ compositions ... some on CD, some in MP3 format
  Many more pieces are available in inked format, so if you don't find it, check the Big List

Exclusive Distributor: Frog Peak

Frog Peak Music is my exclusive distributor. You are welcome to download, print, and perform scores from this site as always, but a purchase from Frog Peak Music is a fast & effective way to get professionally produced scores ready to play, and help the composer earn his pennies.

My Original Instruments Collected

I have collected the surviving photographs from my instruments built from 1969 through 1994. There are 25 or so that I can remember. Here are the pictures and descriptions of my original instruments.

Bass Viola da Gamba For Sale SOLD

My bass viola da gamba, built by Fred Carlson in 1982, is for sale sold. Reasonable offers in the $6,000 range, please.

Pix of Ionic Performer Synth

Here are pictures of my 1973 Ionic Industries "Performer" Synth, including a copy of the manual's funky cover, several advertising pieces, and a reader complaint. There's also a link to pieces created with this synth and a VSTi emulation!.

Publications You Must Have!

O: Eleven Songs

O: Eleven Songs for Chorus SATB with text by Gary Barwin from Lulu.com. These vivid settings of eleven poems by Gary Barwin are mysterious, funny, tender, inventive, rich in association, and eminently singable. From the skittering conversation of "The Birds," to the alternate Medieval world of "Sparrows' Song" and the rhythmic footsy of "Small Apes and White Feet," these songs strike a balance between thoughtful reflection and quirky off-kilter humor.

Erzsebet: The Full Score

Erzsébet: A Monodrama is the opera's score from Lulu.com. This large volume is the full orchestration in a beautiful presentation with Lisa Jablow as Erzsébet on the cover. The opera is complete and premiered; a DVD will be offered here shortly! Complete background on the opera and information on downloading information, purchasing T-shirts, programs, etc., as well as future performances can be found on The Bathory Opera Website.

Three Performance Pieces

Three Performance Pieces is available from Lulu.com. Three beautiful performance scores from the 2007 "We Are All Mozart" project. One is a set of 99 performance pieces, the second a set of seven sections for French horn, and the third a set of 13 graphical scores for tenor guitar. Several of the latter are part of the "Notations21" gallery series.

Erzsebet: A Monodrama

Erzsébet: A Monodrama is the opera's libretto available from either Amazon.com or Lulu.com. The opera is complete and premiered, and a DVD will be offered here shortly! The libretto includes the full text along with images in a beautiful commemorative volume. More info at The Bathory Opera Website

Country Stores of Vermont

Country Stores of Vermont: A History and Guide is available from The History Press. It's a really good book, with fantastic pictures and great stories as well as ten fantastic tours of Vermont. You can get it cheaper at Amazon.com or you can get copies from our local Vermont bookstores and country & general stores. Autographed copies also available..

 

Read All About Me, Me, Me!

Kyle Gann wrote a complimentary profile about me (I'm "a shadowy figure" -- yeah!) in Chamber Music Magazine in November. It was a very nice piece which you can read here (PDF).

 

What Year 2011 Has Wrought!

Wow. It's hard to describe what's happened in the year since I've last had time to update my own personal website. The overwhelming part has been staging three performances of Erzsébet, the monodrama about the Countess Erzsébet Báthory. Full details of this production are at The Bathory Opera Website. I'll just say that it was a staggeringly beautiful production with astounding work by Lisa Jablow as the Countess, direction by Ann Harvey and with Anne Decker conducting the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. The full production will be available on DVD shortly (by January 2012). Here is a 70-second clip.

The year was more than that. It was the Year of the Vermont Composer, which you can read all about in New Music Box and Sequenza21. One of the great pleasures of the year was the premiere of my three-movement Sonata for Viola, including the three movements "In Search of the Seven Blue Stars," "In Search of the Lightness of Horizon," and "Evasively Transcendental". Violist Elizabeth Reid played it beautifully at Radio Bean in March, a performance you can see and hear on YouTube or download in score form. In May, Starry Night was premiered by the genius young pianist Joe Pepper (score available in the keyboard catalog), and the performance was thrilling -- very powerful. My father-son duet Counting Myself was played by Tristan Blais and his dad Bob in February, a delightful performance you can also see and hear on YouTube and which you can download in score form. Bob and his cello chamber ensemble also premiered The Four Elements (Earth, Air, Water, Sleep) for cello quartet. I don't have a score or recording for you yet ... haven't gotten to it, but I will!

Autumn Dig, a piece for intermediate orchestra, was revised for Bob Blais and the Green Mountain Youth Symphony. They performed it enthusiastically and dramatically a few times in March; check it out on YouTube and grab a score and parts from the Large Ensemble Catalog. It's fun to play for orchestras of any age! Another performance from early in the year was the premiere of the piece for alto flute, bass clarinet, bassoon, guitar and djembe entitled Giè, done by the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. This commission is wonderful and evocative, and you can see and hear one of several fine performances on YouTube and then check out a copy in the Expanded Chamber Catalog.

2011 was also the year of a huge flood in Vermont, which damaged our home and tossed us out of the house for a few weeks. We recovered, but not in time to hear the VCME perform Fuliginous Quadrant on the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The group did a performance in April. You can see and hear the April performance on YouTube and of course download a score from the Chamber Music for Four Instruments Catalog. (This work had its world premiere in Belgium in 2003. These were the U.S. premieres.)

There are a bunch of new pieces which haven't been premiered yet. iota for solo violin, Parched Fields for violin and cello, A Breath on the Kitchen Window for two violins, and O: Eleven Songs for Chorus on text by Gary Barwin, some of them read at the Warebrook Music Festival this past summer. The three short ones are available for download from the catalog. Last and somewhat least were premieres of You Spotted Snakes for voices and strings for the Johnson State College Theatre Department, and an arrangement of Mad World for the JSC Chorus. Fun!

 

New Scores and MP3s Are Up!

It's been a really long time getting some material up -- just busy. So here is what is new in the catalog. Crosscut, the concerto for piano and large wind band is in the Keyboard Catalog; this one's a real honey and is to be premiered sometime soon in Valencia, Spain. Also up is the third movement of my viola sonata, Evasively Transcendental, as well as a short bassoon piece To the Secretary of Good Fortune, both in the Solo Catalog. Also there is the premiere of Meta-Dream Twice as played by Thomas L. Read, and the final (13th "newmoon") month of Lunar Cascade in Serial Time. There's nothing new for two instruments (though a great performance of O Vox Pop on YouTube). An updated version of Wedding Changes is in the Music for Three Instruments -- five new variations each five years, now up to 50 variations for three flutes. There are no new quartets either, but there is a really cool quintet for winds called Binnen in the catalog of Music for Five or More Instruments.

In the Vocal Music Catalog there are the two lullabies for Janet Brand, A Spiral Lullaby and A Spiky Lullaby. Also there is the reworked version of I lift my heavy heart for solo voice alone (the previous version included flute and guitar). Premieres of XLII: Adeste Hendecasyllabi and She Who Saves are both there for your enjoyment. The Performance Works Catalog now includes the majestic Contraflow Symphony for sixteen large and sixteen small vehicles; it was performed in virtual form in Athens, but it awaits its real-world premiere.

The Electroacoustic Catalog is chock full of new pieces: Alien Angels, blinded, Conjim for Ed, Driving My 1948 Limbo, imanuevilla and smuttle. Oh, yeah. Only the latter is NSFW.

Finally, the Music for Large Ensemble catalog presents the scores, demos, and performances of Autumn Dig (new version for large student orchestra, with parts for download); Csárdás in a newly composed version for string orchestra; Dualis Extensualis, a one-minute 60x60 Orchestral piece; and White Landscape With Moon and Water, a mysterious piece for large orchestra. You'll also find the Crosscut concerto for piano and large wind band there with a complete set of parts.

 

New Younger Performer Section

I've added a section to my catalog, Music for Young Performers. This was done on request because my music for young players (and emerging amateurs) was mixed in with the other several hundred in my catalog. So here it is!

 

Opera Lyrics Font

I've created a TrueType font based on 19th century opera scores. It has all the typical characters and a few more, but is missing still a few of the special characters. I'll improve it over the next few months, but if you're interested, here it is: Opera-Lyrics-Smooth. If you distribute it, please keep in mind that this version (1.65) will occasionally be updated. Click image for full-sized chart.

opera lyrics chart

 

Build 4 U!

People have remarked for years about the imaginative character of our little New England cape, full of hand-made furniture, cabinets, closets, shelves and other interesting items. Now you can have these, too because I will build it 4 u!

 

Yes I am...

On Facebook and Twitter.

 

Getcher Bumper Sticker!

Join the nonpop "Buy Local" campaign! If you're a composer or supporter of new nonpop, you can get a bumper sticker for five bucks at CafePress, item number 80570307, or even better you can download and print it yourself. The CafePress one is only 10 inches wide, but you can use the full-size image to print a big one on 11x17 paper and trim it to standard 3.75" x 15" bumper sticker size.

Buy Local bumper sticker

 

We Are All Mozart -- Over but Not Forgotten

  We Are All Mozart   A 365-day composition project.

Mantra Canon score page

The plan was to finish one piece of commissioned music a day in 2007. The commissioning goal wasn't met, but I finished 100 pieces, every one commissioned. The project was a success, and ultimately has influenced many other composers to pursue their compositional goals with intensity and commitment.

Please visit my "We Are All Mozart" website to read about the purpose of this project, and hear demos and the premieres as they come in!

 

Openings for Engraving and Editing

I have openings for new music engraving clients and book editing clients. Here are samples of my music engraving work, and you can find the results of some of my book editing work at the admittedly very old Transitive Empire site. Here's how to contact me.

 

People Have Asked...

...why I give away my music. Here is the answer.

 

Older News

What's in the Older News section? Stuff you can use...

  • My music as ringtones for download
  • My library of musical scores for sale
  • Ionic "Performer" 1973 Synth VSTi for download
  • Wooden Kind remix with Lee Noyes
  • Crosscut (2009) piano concerto announcement
  • Composition for Tape & Soloists (1969) score available for download
  • Eventide (2006) studio recording for download
  • Availability and samples of Vermont photography
  • Country Stores of Vermont (2008) announcement
  • Progress of and announcements about We Are All Mozart (2007)

...and much more back to 2000.

Dennis Bathory-Kitsz

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Photos, Books and Instruments

Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble
Rode Pomp Ensemble
Michael Manion
Lydia Busler-Blais
Beth Griffith
Marco Oppedisano
P. Kellach Waddle
Eric Ross
Su Lian Tan
Dante Oei
Michael Arnowitt
Steve Klimowski and Rachael Elliott
Styx-Q/VIP Positive Quartet
Montpelier Chamber Orchestra

2011 Performances and Events

  • October 30, Burlington, Vermont: Erzsébet, The Opera. Lisa Jablow as Erzsébet with the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, Anne Decker, conductor, and directed by Ann Harvey. Black Box Theatre at Main Street Landing, 4pm.
  • October 29, Plainfield, Vermont: Erzsébet, The Opera. Lisa Jablow as Erzsébet with the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, Anne Decker, conductor, and directed by Ann Harvey. Haybarn Theatre at Goddard College, 8pm.
  • October 28, Hyde Park, Vermont: Erzsébet, The Opera. Lisa Jablow as Erzsébet with the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, Anne Decker, conductor, and directed by Ann Harvey. Hyde Park Opera House, 8pm.
  • September 25, New York City: ...daar zaten wij for solo voice. Beth Giffith, soprano, as part of the Vox Novus "15 Minutes of Fame" Project. Jan Hus Church.
  • September 11, Burlington, Vermont: Fuliginous Quadrant for violin, clarinet, cello and piano. Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. FlynnSpace, 4pm.
  • June 18, Montpelier, Vermont: The Four Elements for four celli. Students of Robert Blais. Unitarian Church, 3pm.
  • June 5, Burlington, Vermont: Toccata for piano. Joseph Pepper, piano. Unitarian-Universalist Church, 7:30pm.
  • May 15, Montpelier, Vermont: Starry Night for piano. Joseph Pepper, piano. Bethany Church, 4pm.
  • April 10, Barre, Vermont: Autumn Dig for orchestra. Green Mountain Youth Symphony. Barre Opera House, 2pm.
  • April 1, Montpelier, Vermont: Fuliginous Quadrant for violin, cello, clarinet & piano. Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. Unitarian Church, 8pm.
  • March 30, Burlington, Vermont: Fuliginous Quadrant for violin, cello, clarinet & piano. Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. FlynnSpace, 4pm.
  • March 27, Montpelier, Vermont: Autumn Dig for orchestra. Green Mountain Youth Symphony. Montpelier High School, 3:30pm.
  • March 26, Romeoville, Illinois: Driving My 1948 Limbo, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project UnTwelve Mix, MusicBYTES, Lewis University.
  • March 12, Burlington, Vermont: Sonata for viola. Elizabeth Reid, viola. Radio Bean, 7:30pm.
  • February 23-26, Huddersfield, United Kingdom: Driving My 1948 Limbo, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project UnTwelve Mix, Atrium of the Creative Arts Bulding, GEMdays.
  • February 20, Montpelier, Vermont: Giè for alto flute, bass clarinet, bassoon, guitar and djembe. Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. Unitarlian Church, 2pm.
  • February 18, Burlington, Vermont: Giè for alto flute, bass clarinet, bassoon, guitar and djembe. Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. FlynnSpace, 8pm.
  • February 11, Long Beach: Driving My 1948 Limbo, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project Sanguine Mix, University Art Museum, California State University.
  • February 10, Wayne, New Jersey: Driving My 1948 Limbo, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project Sanguine Mix, William Paterson University.
  • February 10, Johnson, Vermont: You Spotted Snakes for singers & strings. Johnson State Theatre Department. Dibden Auditorium, 7:30pm.
  • February 5, Montpelier, Vermont: Counting Myself for 2 celli. Tristan and Bob Blais, celli. Unitarian Church, 3pm.
  • February 1, Bowling Green: Driving My 1948 Limbo, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project UnTwelve Mix, Bryan Recital Hall, Bowling Green State University.
  • January 27, London: Driving My 1948 Limbo, in the Vox Novus 60x60 Project Sanguine Mix, The Sprawl.

2010 Performances and Events

2009 Performances and Events

2008 Performances and Events

2007 Performances and Events

2006 Performances and Events

2005 Performances and Events

2004 Performances and Events

2003 Performances and Events

Detritus of Mating CD
Zonule Glaes II CD
  • Zonule Glaes II limited-edition CD is available
           Performed by Styx-Q V.I.P. Positive Quartet
           For ordering info, please use the Contact Form
  • Sex Death Offerings, sculpture by Pavel Kraus.
           Zonule Glaes II was created for this exhibit.
           Mánes Museum, Prague.
Voices Past Cover
  • Old CD Releases and Covers can still be had. Some used to be on MP3.com and others were private releases. Here they are.
Performing in Echo Performing with the Dashuki Music Theatre at New Jersey State Museum
Appearing with Green Mountain Micro in Princeton
Appearing with Apple Hill Chamber Players
Appearing with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra
Directing Car Horn Symphony No. 2
Directing the Roxbury Union Congregational Church Choir
Performing Detonacy 1976 at Delaware Valley Avant-Garde Festival
Performing Somnambula at New Jersey State Museum
Performing Memento Mori at Feedback Studios
Performing in Beepers
Touring with Stevie in Amsterdam

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