A character piece by the Polish composer Feliks Nowowiejski that draws on light-hearted, folk-inflected motifs. It is distinctive for its charming rhythmic vitality and agile technical flourishes.
Ensure the crisp, light articulation of the short, detached figures.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Backfischchens Traum (Op.5) is rated Henle level 4 of 9 — intermediate repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 5–6. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 5.
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 Backfischchens Traum (Op.5) lasts about 3 minutes.
Backfischchens Traum (Op.5) 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 The Entertainer by Scott Joplin, 12 Variations on "Ah vous dirais-je, Maman" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.