A suite of five distinct character pieces that showcase Ravel's mastery of keyboard harmony and varied musical imagery. Each piece explores a different facet of the piano's resonance and sonority.
The core difficulty lies in 'voicing'—extracting the melodic lines from complex, thick impressionistic textures.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Miroirs is rated Henle level 8 of 9 — concert repertoire, roughly diploma level. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 10.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 8 — meaning you can already play level 7–8 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 Miroirs lasts about 25 minutes.
Miroirs 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 Jeux d'eau by Maurice Ravel, Le tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel, Sonatine by Maurice Ravel — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.