bell xylophone Marimba Composers

Percussion ensembles? There have been several. Let me name a few notable pieces:

Miloslav Kabelac's Eight Inventions for Percussion Op. 45 is a good selection (20 minutes of percussion ensemble music!)

Christopher Rouse wrote two pieces for Percussion Ensemble that I know, 'Ku-Ka-Ilimoku' and 'Ogoun Badagris'

thanks for the help

On Naxo's composers i couldn't find the music for none of this composers

You probably won't find any Naxos CDs of this music. Here's where I found it all:

The Kabelac was on Praga

The Rouse was on Koch International Classics

The Higdon was on Telarc

The Korngold was on EMI

The Khatchaturian was on London

Mozart used sleigh bells in one of his German dances, I believe he titled it "Sleigh Ride". That is the only 18th century piece I remember right off that had one of those instruments. I love lots of percussion also!

A few 20th century composers that i know wrote heaps for percussion are Ross Edwards( wrote alot of solo marimba pieces, "Dragonfly Dances", "Marimba Dances"), and Nigel Westlake, "Omphalo Centric Lecture". Carl Vine wrote a awesome Percussion Symphony, and i think Matthew Hindson is currently writing a percussion concerto. that's all i really know off my head