John Thompson

Titles: Liebestraum (Liszt) · Ninth Symphony Theme (Beethoven) · Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Brahms) · In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) · Danse Macabre (Saint-Saens) · Serenade (Schubert) · Waltz o...

This collection of 26 popular folk songs, arranged in the John Thompson tradition, is intended as supplementary material for the beginning to early level pianist. The pieces also make for excellent si...

A miniature suite of five first grade pieces describing important episodes in the year 1849. Excellent material for costume recitals!

This suite presents a mini American history lesson with music depicting the Landing of the Pilgrims to The First Thanksgiving.

This adaptation of Liszt's most famous Hungarian rhapsody is arranged perfectly for the student anxious to play the flashy and captivating pieces of the Romantic era.

The technical examples were adapted and selected from the works of Behr, Beyer, Concone, Czerny, Kohler, and Schmitt, among others.

A follow-up to Thompson's edition of the Hanon Studies, this collection of pieces and exercises seeks to develop basic touches used in piano playing, for example: the phrasing touch, finger staccato,...

Combining musical enjoyment with finger development, all the examples in this boook are well-known tunes intertwined with actual technical figures from recognized masters of etude writing. For example...

A follow-up to Book 1, this book contains slightly more advanced musical examples.