Daniel Eichleitner's works remain largely obscure compositions from the 19th-century salon tradition. The piece features a sentimental melodic line supported by broken chord textures typical of early Romantic character pieces.
Maintain a smooth legato line while balancing the accompaniment beneath the melody.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Ballade No.1 (Op.3) 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 Ballade No.1 (Op.3) lasts about 4 minutes.
Ballade No.1 (Op.3) 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 Barcarolle by Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Albumblatt in A minor by Johannes Brahms, Albumblatt by Carl Filtsch — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.