A dramatic and brooding character piece by Aurélio Cavalcanti. It employs significant shifts in register to evoke a sense of longing.
Master the large-span chordal passages while maintaining a consistent emotional narrative.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Amor ardente is rated Henle level 4 of 9 — intermediate repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 5–6. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 6.
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 Amor ardente lasts about 4 minutes.
Amor ardente 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 Cahir das folhas by Aurélio Cavalcanti, Beijo das ondas by Aurélio Cavalcanti, Arrependida by Aurélio Cavalcanti — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.