A bright and cheerful piano work aimed at students or parlor performance. Its musical interest lies in its simple, direct phrasing and pleasant melodic contour.
Emphasize clean, detached articulation in the light thematic material.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Buenos dias (Op.190) is rated Henle level 3 of 9 — late beginner repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 4–5. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 4.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 3 — meaning you can already play level 2–3 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 Buenos dias (Op.190) lasts about 3 minutes.
Buenos dias (Op.190) 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 Artística by Aurélio Cavalcanti, Cake-walk by Aurélio Cavalcanti, Altiva by Aurélio Cavalcanti — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.