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Tambourin Chinois, a highly celebrated classical piece for violin and piano composed by the virtuoso violinist Fritz Kreisler, Composed in 1910.
Kreisler was inspired to write the piece after visiting a Chinese theater during a trip to San Francisco.It heavily employs the pentatonic scale and fast, rapid-fire bowing technique to mimic an energetic, stylized \"Chinese Drum\" tempo. It remains one of his most popular and technically demanding encore showpieces.
Published by Carl Fischer Music, the company is a premier, family-owned American sheet music publisher founded in 1872 in New York City. Originally established as a musical instrument repair shop in the East Village, it has evolved over more than 150 years into one of the largest and most respected pedagogical and performance music publishers in the world.
