Villa-Lobos’s choral-style writing adapted for piano displays his unique blend of Brazilian melodic sensibility and complex contrapuntal logic. It is a sophisticated, harmonically dense piece.
Managing the complex, intersecting lines requires advanced voicing skills.
Bendita sabedoria, W543 is rated Henle level 5 of 9 — late intermediate repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 6–7. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 8.
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 Bendita sabedoria, W543 lasts about 4 minutes.
Bendita sabedoria, W543 is available as free public-domain sheet music on IMSLP — the score is linked directly from this page.