Albin Fries is a contemporary composer whose solo piano music often draws from post-romantic and impressionist harmonic languages. This piece is a reflective, introspective miniature for the instrument.
Practice achieving a seamless legato line while balancing the soft harmonic accompaniment.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Allein is rated Henle level 3 of 9 — late beginner repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 4–5. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 4.
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 Allein lasts about 3 minutes.
Allein 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 Auf Wiedersehen by Albin Fries, Gymnopédie No. 1 by Erik Satie, Gymnopédie No. 2 by Erik Satie — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.