This is a character piece written as a gift for the renowned pianist Harold Bauer. It features a straightforward melodic structure typical of mid-20th-century salon music.
Focus on maintaining a smooth, singing tone in the right hand melody while keeping the accompaniment light.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Birthday Greeting to Harold Bauer is rated Henle level 3 of 9 — late beginner repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 4–5. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 3.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 3 — meaning you can already play level 2–3 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 Birthday Greeting to Harold Bauer lasts about 2 minutes.
Birthday Greeting to Harold Bauer 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 Belle of the Ball by Leroy Anderson, Black Beauty by Duke Ellington, American Beauty by Joseph Francis Lamb — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.