This piece is a characteristic salon work by the Brazilian composer Eduardo Souto. It is distinctive for its blend of late Romantic harmonic sensibility and early 20th-century Brazilian stylistic charm.
Focus on maintaining a steady yet expressive pulse within the salon-style melodic lines.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
As quatro estações do ano 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 As quatro estações do ano lasts about 3 minutes.
As quatro estações do ano 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 Bandeirantes: marcha-ragtime by Eduardo Souto, Bandeirantes by Eduardo Souto, Borboletas azuis by Eduardo Souto — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.