Antonio Jimenez Manjón was a guitar virtuoso, and this piano arrangement captures the idiomatic, song-like qualities of his late-Romantic style. It is characterized by its fluid melodic lines and expressive harmonic shifts.
Focus on balancing the lyrical melody against the arpeggiated accompaniment to maintain a seamless, vocal quality.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Balada (Op.7) 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 Balada (Op.7) lasts about 4 minutes.
Balada (Op.7) 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 Albumblatt in A minor by Johannes Brahms, Ballade et barcarole by William Mason, Ballade op. 11 by Eduard Lucerna — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.