This piece is a refined, stylized waltz that showcases Liszt's ability to imbue salon music with sophisticated harmonic colors. It balances technical flair with a deep, sentimental melodic core.
Shape the rubato carefully to avoid disrupting the underlying waltz pulse.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Albumblatt in Walzerform (S.166) is rated Henle level 6 of 9 — advanced repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 7–8. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 8.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 6 — meaning you can already play level 5–6 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 Albumblatt in Walzerform (S.166) lasts about 3 minutes.
Albumblatt in Walzerform (S.166) 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 Liebestraum No. 3 in A-flat major by Franz Liszt, Ave Maria after Schubert S558 by Franz Liszt, Valse oubliée No. 1 by Franz Liszt — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.