This is a brief, lyrical character piece by the Czech composer Stanislav Suda. It exhibits the salon-style writing common in late 19th-century Central European piano literature.
Focus on maintaining a seamless, singing melody line against a balanced accompaniment.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Ballada 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 Ballada lasts about 3 minutes.
Ballada 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 by Carl Filtsch, 'Break, break, break' by Alfred Humphries Pease, Berceuse triste by Sylvio Lazzari — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.