Brinley Richards was a prolific Victorian composer known for his drawing-room piano pieces. This work features decorative figurations typical of mid-19th-century parlor music.
The primary challenge lies in executing the ornamental runs with rhythmic clarity against the underlying harmonic structure.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Alexandra is rated Henle level 4 of 9 — intermediate repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 5–6. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 5.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 4 — meaning you can already play level 3–4 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 Alexandra lasts about 4 minutes.
Alexandra 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 Sorcerer' Fantasia by Brinley Richards, Alexandra by Brinley Richards, Waltz No. 2 by Dmitri Shostakovich — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.