Bataille d'Austerlitz reflects the popular 19th-century genre of battle pieces, utilizing fanfare motifs and rapid scales to depict the famous Napoleonic conflict. Steibelt's style emphasizes Classical clarity combined with dramatic programmatic flair.
Achieving evenness in the rapid running passages is the essential technical hurdle.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Bataille d'Austerlitz 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 Bataille d'Austerlitz lasts about 5 minutes.
Bataille d'Austerlitz 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 Solfegetto in C minor, H 220 by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Bal Masqué by Kees Schoonenbeek, Barricaden Galopp by Franz Xaver Chwatal — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.