Blue Banquet is a salon-style waltz designed for the early-intermediate pianist. It provides a simple, lighthearted melodic framework typical of 19th-century amateur piano entertainment.
Ensure the waltz accompaniment does not overpower the melodic line.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Blue Banquet is rated Henle level 2 of 9 — beginner repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 2–3. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 2.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 2 — meaning you can already play level 1–2 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 Blue Banquet lasts about 2 minutes.
Blue Banquet 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 Candy Corn Shimmy by Cameron Lee Simpson, Butter Fingers by Cameron Lee Simpson, Butterscotch by Cameron Lee Simpson — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.