Beryllisations No.1 is a delicate contemporary piano work that serves as an introduction to Oliveira's personal harmonic language. It emphasizes spatial atmosphere over traditional developmental structures.
Students must focus on subtle pedaling to maintain the clarity of the atmospheric harmonic shifts.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Beryllisations No.1 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 Beryllisations No.1 lasts about 2 minutes.
Beryllisations No.1 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 Beryllisations No.10 by Jailton de Oliveira, Beryllisations No.9 by Jailton de Oliveira, Beryllisations No.8 by Jailton de Oliveira — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.