This is a piano transcription of Schubert's famous song, offering a pianistic interpretation of its moonlit atmosphere. It is renowned for its tender melody and lyrical quality.
Requires a sensitive touch to produce a warm, vocal quality and to manage the subtle harmonic shifts.
An den Mond (D.193) 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 An den Mond (D.193) lasts about 3.5 minutes.
An den Mond (D.193) is available as free public-domain sheet music on IMSLP — the score is linked directly from this page.