This piece blends the traditional waltz form with jazz-inflected blues harmonies and an elegiac temperament. It is musically distinctive for its juxtaposition of 19th-century romantic gestures with contemporary harmonic coloring.
The primary challenge is maintaining a consistent waltz pulse while navigating non-diatonic harmonic shifts.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Blues Waltz - Elegiac Fantasy 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 Blues Waltz - Elegiac Fantasy lasts about 4 minutes.
Blues Waltz - Elegiac Fantasy 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 Allegro de Concert by Colette Mourey, Bells Memory by Colette Mourey, Blues Waltz by Colette Mourey — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.