John Thompson
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John Thompson is the best known performer of early music for the Chinese silk string zither, the music instrument most favored by Chinese philosophers and aesthetes (in Chinese: qin ["chin"] or guqin ["goo-chin"]). After a college degree in Western musicology (early music) and graduate studies in ethnomusicology, he began in 1974 to study China's silk-string guqin zither as played at present. Since 1976 he has focused on early repertoire, personally reconstructing over 150 melodies published in
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- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Thompson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Litchfield
- Occupation
- judge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Work location
- Washington, D.C.
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- date of birth
- 1749-03-20
- date of death
- 1823-09-30
- place of burial
- New York
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