I stand corrected

I was reviewing a technical specification for a messaging protocol as I oft do. The specification had some great ideas, but there were embellishments and concepts layered on that made the specification feel quite heavy with a loss of elegance.
Unfortunately I turned to a commonly used label today identifying embellished designs as being Baroque. A final flippant analogy, indicating the specification was more Bach than Mozart was thrown in. Well this attempt at analogy provoked the following insight which I truly agree with from my friend and colleague, Karl Botts:
Mozart is over-embellished in the common manner of the child he was; Bach is the essence of mature, spare and elegant conception, surely unmatched by any musician, perhaps by any person, in history. It is unwise to take seriously the labels of art critics, in particular "Baroque". It was invented and made pejorative by the "classicists" who immediately followed Bach, in particular his own children, the same generation which raised Mozart to a prodigy. Their motivation was largely the naive rebelliousness of youth. Yet Mozart himself was wise enough to know who his master was, even if the master's kids were not.
I appreciate when someone is willing to call out my times of incomplete thinking and cultural bias and conditioning - especially when it comes to commonly shared views which were absorbed and accepted without my own independent thought being applied.
Bach and Mozart - them was darned good musicians. And in playing back some music in my addled brain - Bach is the essence of sparseness and elegant design.