Ernest Gillet, primarily known for salon orchestrations, crafts a delicate piano miniature here that features warm, Romantic melodic writing. It stands out for its effective use of registral shifts to suggest an evening breeze.
The primary challenge is balancing the singing melody against the accompaniment while maintaining rhythmic flexibility.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Brise du soir is rated Henle level 4 of 9 — intermediate repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 5–6. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 5.
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 Brise du soir lasts about 4 minutes.
Brise du soir 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 Au moulin by Ernest Gillet, Berceuse by Rudolf Friml, Cathinka Polka Mazurka by Hans Christian Lumbye — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.