The neat and tidy, almost ascetic intellectual aspect of music is what I hear in Mozart's symphonies, well, in the few I've heard, that is; formulaic symphonies knocked up in a precocious draughtsman's board of a mind. Beethoven, I feel, took a step closer towards the emotive; admittedly, my experience with Beethoven's music is still fairly limited. With Mahler, however, emotion is indeed the well from which innumerable conductors and orchestras may draw waters of inspiration that they may then pour rich and blessed libations of interpretation... thence from water to wine, Mahler is the emotive vassal of mine!
