This modern lyrical piece explores subtle harmonic colorings and expressive phrasing. It is distinctive for its understated melodic development that avoids conventional virtuosic flourishes.
Focus on maintaining a seamless, singing tone across wide, shifting harmonic textures.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
...ma non troppo is rated Henle level 4 of 9 — intermediate repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 5–6. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 6.
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 ...ma non troppo lasts about 3 minutes.
...ma non troppo 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 Brévitude by Joâo Schnier, ...ma non troppo. I by Joâo Schnier, Ave Maria d'Arcadelt by Franz Liszt — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.