A contemporary pedagogical piece designed to develop dexterity and rhythmic alertness. Its style relies on standard tonal patterns and energetic, repetitive scalar figures.
Focus on evenness of touch across the rapid sixteenth-note patterns.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Allegro vivace is rated Henle level 3 of 9 — late beginner repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 4–5. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 5.
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 Allegro vivace lasts about 2 minutes.
Allegro vivace 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 Bach Modification by Justin Saragoza, Black Sun by Justin Saragoza, Alexander's Ragtime Band by Irving Berlin — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.