Pinwheel Galaxy

Leander Kaiser

General Info

Year of Published: 2026
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 00:05:15
Cost: $16.00

Instrumentation

Marimba

Program Notes

22 million light years away from the Earth the spiral-shaped Pinwheel Galaxy has a diameter of 190,000 light years and contains approximately one trillion stars. The Pinwheel Galaxy is about twice as large as our Milky Way. I musically depicted this stunning appearance by using a great abundance of notes—still less than 1 trillion—topped by quasi spiral-shaped melodies. Furthermore, another short fantastic melody reminds us of the gigantic distances out there in the almost never-ending space of the universe.

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Works for Percussion by this Composer

Solo

Apsara No.1 - Marimba
Apsara No.2 - Marimba
Aquanautic Voyage - Percussion Sextet
Bells, Poems and Monasteries - Multiple Percussion
Besenfingerschlägelfilz - Snare Drum Solo
Black Sphinx - Marimba
Colorado Springs - Marimba
Der Provokateur for Snare Drum Solo
Four Piatti Caprices Op. 25 (No.1,4,8,9) - Marimba
Florida Arclab - Multiple Percussion
Hurricane's Eye - Marimba
Kick Box 261 - Marimba
Kurbelwelle five Solos - Drum-Set
Minotaurus 4.3 - Marimba
Nächtliche Reise, by/von Cornelius Gurlitt - Marimba Solo up to Percussion Quintet
Onyx (Kaiser) - Vibraphone Solo
Symplegades for Timpani
Three Caprices Op. 25 by Alfredo Piatti (No.5,10,12) - Marimba
Upside Down (Kaiser) - Timpani Solo (2)
Vier kurze Soli für den jungen Schlagzeuger - Drum-Set Solo
Watermusic - Vibraphone (with incidental Percussion)
Whirlwind I - Drum-Set Solo

Duo

Cosmic Constellation
Countersink Engine No.1
Coutersink Engine No.2
Double Flanging No.1
Double Flanging No.2
Easy 6/8-Duo for Drums
Easy Duo for two Drum-Sets
Easy Latin-Duo for Drums
Easy Pop-Duo for Drums
Easy Pop-Duo II for Drums -
Fünf Duos Drums
Korkenzieher 4 Duos for Drumsl
Kugelblitz
Kugellager
Latin-Duo
Rock-Duo I
Shuffle-Duo
Slow Rock-Duo I
Three Winter Impressions
Time Torpedo II
Time Torpedo for two Drum-Sets Duo

Duo with Other Instruments

Phaikon 493 - Organ and Percussion
SchattenSägenFuge - Piccolo and Field-Drum

Trio

Bayon Pearnik (Percussion Trio Version)
Kolbenfresser
Rock-Trio
Slow-Swing Trio

Quartet

5f Midland Transit
Bayon Pearnik (Percussion Quartet Version)
Die Sitzgruppe
Eastern Oriental Express
Eastern Pacific Liner
Klassentreffen 3 Quartette
L´Expreso Brazil
Melting Point
Mikado 1254
Queensland Offshore Railroad
Southern Pacific Liner
The Rocky Mountaineer
Transsiberian Railroad
Union Pacific Liner
Western Pacific Liner

Large Ensemble

Desert Express