The Bravura-Valse is a concert-style waltz designed for display, utilizing the typical flourishes of late romantic piano literature. It blends melodic sentimentality with bravura display elements.
Requires effective use of rubato to bridge the gap between lyrical sections and virtuosic bursts.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Bravura-Valse is rated Henle level 7 of 9 — late advanced repertoire, roughly ABRSM grade 8 and above. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 9.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 7 — meaning you can already play level 6–7 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 Bravura-Valse lasts about 5 minutes.
Bravura-Valse 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 du concerto No.1 by Auguste Dupont, Allegro de Concert pour piano by Vincent Adler, Rhapsody in Blue (Solo Piano) by George Gershwin — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.