Black Cat Toccata by Carlotta Ferrari is a modern keyboard work exploring virtuoso motoric patterns. It is distinctive for its dark, brooding harmonic language contrasted with constant sixteenth-note motion.
The piece demands exceptional finger independence and stamina to maintain clarity during the rapid, repetitive passages.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Black Cat Toccata 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 Black Cat Toccata lasts about 4 minutes.
Black Cat Toccata 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 Butterfly Fantasy by Carlotta Ferrari, Bela Lugosi by Carlotta Ferrari, Bhavapriya Prelude and Fugue by Carlotta Ferrari — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.