This is a charming salon-style polka-mazurka from the late nineteenth-century parlor tradition. It is distinctive for its typical rhythmic interplay between the polka's zest and the mazurka's stylized dance pulse.
Maintain a steady, danceable pulse while ensuring the characteristic mazurka accent on the second beat remains light.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Azalien Polka-Mazurka 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 Azalien Polka-Mazurka lasts about 3 minutes.
Azalien Polka-Mazurka 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 Azalien Polka-Mazurka by Friedrich Zikoff, The Entertainer by Scott Joplin, Bach-anh-114 by Johann Sebastian Bach — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.