| Tambourin Chinois | |
| Composer: | Fritz Kreisler |
| Key: | B-flat major |
| Opus: | 3 |
| Year: | 1910 |
| Duration: | 4 minutes |
| Scoring: | Violin and Piano |
Tambourin Chinois, Op. 3, known in English as Chinese Tambourine or Chinese Drum, is a piece by composer Fritz Kreisler for Violin and Piano. It is one of his most well-known pieces behind his Old Viennese Melodies and Praeludium and Allegro.[1]
The piece is inspired from a performance of traditional Chinese music heard by the composer while they visited San Francisco.[2] As such, the piece is highly inspired by the pentatonic scale, though Kreisler said that he did not take any thematic information from his visit.[3]