A high-energy galop composed by the prolific Danish composer Hans Christian Lumbye, known for his ballroom dance music. The piece exhibits brilliant keyboard passagework and a constant, driving forward motion.
Maintaining clarity and tempo control during the rapid-fire sixteenth-note passages is the central challenge.
Bouquet-Royal Galop is rated Henle level 4 of 9 — intermediate repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 5–6. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 7.
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 Bouquet-Royal Galop lasts about 4 minutes.
Bouquet-Royal Galop is available as free public-domain sheet music on IMSLP — the score is linked directly from this page.