Stradal’s second Bravourstudie continues the project of adapting Paganini’s violinistic fireworks for the keyboard. It is a masterpiece of 19th-century transcriptive technique, requiring profound finger dexterity.
Mastering the control of dramatic dynamic contrasts within the rapid-fire technical passages is essential.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Bravourstudie No.2 nach Themen von Nicolaus Paganini is rated Henle level 9 of 9 — virtuoso repertoire, roughly concert / virtuoso level. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 10.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 9 — meaning you can already play level 8–9 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 Bravourstudie No.2 nach Themen von Nicolaus Paganini lasts about 6 minutes.
Bravourstudie No.2 nach Themen von Nicolaus Paganini 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 Bravourstudie No.1 nach einer Caprice von N. Paganini by August Stradal, Bourrée fantasque by Emmanuel Chabrier, Allegro de Concierto by Enrique Granados — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.