This piece exemplifies the late Romantic 'sad song' style, utilizing chromatic inflection for emotional impact. It is distinct for its effective use of melancholic gestures within a compact structure.
Develop a convincing sense of rubato that avoids disrupting the underlying formal structure.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Canción Triste Op 95 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 Canción Triste Op 95 lasts about 4 minutes.
Canción Triste Op 95 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 Pavane pour une infante défunte by Maurice Ravel, Waltz in C-sharp minor, No. 2 by Frédéric Chopin, Waltz in A minor by Frédéric Chopin — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.