Giovanni Scrinzi was an Italian composer whose piano works often exhibit a high degree of technical demand. This Ballade is characterized by its restless, driving energy and sweeping, virtuosic passages.
The performer must maintain the integrity of the rhythmic drive while navigating complex, quick-moving hand positions.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Ballade is rated Henle level 6 of 9 — advanced repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 7–8. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 8.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 6 — meaning you can already play level 5–6 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 lasts about 6 minutes.
Ballade 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 Variations sérieuses by Felix Mendelssohn, Ballade by César Franck, Ballade by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.