Alexandre Goria was a prolific Parisian pianist-composer whose Ballade serves as a quintessential example of mid-century French salon music. It features flowing, sentimental melodic lines supported by harmonic arpeggiation.
Ensure the phrasing flows naturally, utilizing subtle rubato to capture the sentimental character of the piece.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Ballade (Op.37) is rated Henle level 5 of 9 — late intermediate repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 6–7. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 7.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 5 — meaning you can already play level 4–5 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 (Op.37) lasts about 5 minutes.
Ballade (Op.37) 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 Alice by Alexandre Édouard Goria, "Berceuse" Petit fantaisie by Alexandre Édouard Goria, Ballade by Alexandre Édouard Goria — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.