Henri Cramer's 'Sonates faciles' are designed to provide pedagogical material for developing pianists, featuring clear structures and accessible melodic material. They emphasize fundamental Classical piano techniques in a straightforward manner.
Good for developing clean articulation and evenness in scale passages.
2 Sonates faciles (Op.111) is rated Henle level 3 of 9 — late beginner repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 4–5. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 2.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 3 — meaning you can already play level 2–3 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 2 Sonates faciles (Op.111) lasts about 10 minutes.
2 Sonates faciles (Op.111) is available as free public-domain sheet music on IMSLP — the score is linked directly from this page.