Francis Thomé was a prolific composer of salon music, and this caprice highlights his gift for graceful, witty melodic construction. The piece is refined and makes use of delicate textures.
Maintain a light touch throughout and ensure clear articulation of the rapid triplet figures.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Caprice in A is rated Henle level 5 of 9 — late intermediate repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 6–7. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 7.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 5 — meaning you can already play level 4–5 pieces cleanly. Learning it one level early is possible as a stretch piece, but more than that usually leads to months of frustration.
A typical performance of Caprice in A lasts about 4 minutes.
Caprice in A is available as free public-domain sheet music on IMSLP — the score is linked directly from this page.
Pieces at a comparable difficulty and character include The Entertainer by Scott Joplin, 12 Variations on "Ah vous dirais-je, Maman" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.