Brivido is a lesser-known Italian salon piece that utilizes dramatic shifts in dynamics and tempo to convey an agitated, emotive quality. It serves as a classic example of late-romantic salon bravura.
Focus on balancing the intensity of the left-hand accompaniment with the melodic phrasing in the right hand.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Brivido 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 Brivido lasts about 3 minutes.
Brivido 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 'O surdato 'nnammurato by Enrico Cannio, Allegro in A major by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, 'Ncore! by Luigi Denza — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.