The Complexity that is Mozart

Sorry for the lack of recent posts.  At the moment, we have just moved into a new place.  I do not have internet access.  However, I am still listening... And, even relistening to pieces I've already commented on.  I've also compared Mozart's work with others.  I've been dabbling as to what makes him so unique.

Mozart is the Shakespeare or classical music.  How so?  Well, obviously there is the beauty of the music, but that is not unique to Mozart.  Oodles of composers have beautiful music, some may even argue more beautiful.  But, another element Shakespeare delved into was ambiguity.  Literary elitists argue back and forth as to whether Shakespeare condoned, condemned, or neutrally approached particular moral issues.  

In a similar manner, Mozart's music is riddled with emotional ambiguity.  Certain song may have an overlying emotion, but that emotion is all too often a mask.  I've yet to listen to a single movement and say, "That's a (whatever emotion) song."  Most often, the cover emotion tends to be joy.  And, think about it, whenever we want to fake an emotion it is usually joy.   I mean, really, who goes around while in reality happy, yet pretending to be mad?