Difficulty of Bach Keyboard Suites?

[grandstaff]

By keyboard suites, I am talking about the English Suites, French Suites, and the Partitas. Could someone rank these pieces in order of difficulty? I searched for a post about this but I could not find it. Thanks to anyone who can help.

[redbaron]

It doesn't work that way. The movements within the suites all vary. Even in a very difficult English Suite you can come across a movement that is not that technically challenging.

GENERALLY the French Suites are the most straightforward of the three, then followed by the English Suites and the Partitas.

[squarevince]

In general, even the most difficult individual dance within a suite isn't that "difficult", compared with some of the trickier WTC fugues.  However, take a full suite together & it becomes more challenging, similar to tackling a hefty sonata.

You can use the Henle Verlag website as a rough guide:

French Suites
https://www.henle.de/us/detail/index.html?Title=French+Suites+BWV+812-817_71

English Suites
https://www.henle.de/us/detail/index.html?Title=English+Suites+BWV+806-811_100

Partitas
https://www.henle.de/us/detail/index.html?Title=Six+Partitas+BWV+825-830_28