Beethoven's 10th Symphony Completed By AI: Premiere October 2021

The world premiere of Beethoven's 10th Symphony, which has been completed with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), will take place on 9 October 2021 at the Telekom Forum in Bonn. The performance was originally scheduled for November 2020, to mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, but had to be postponed due to the pandemic. Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most influential and significant composers of all time, composed nine symphonies and began working on his 10th Symphony shortly before he died. Deutsche Telekom organized a team of international musicologists and artificial intelligence experts led by Dr. Matthias Röder, to create a possible completed version of Beethoven's unfinished 10th Symphony with the help of AI, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. The experts providing scientific guidance and supervision included Prof. Dr. Christine Siegert, head of the Beethoven-Haus research department. The AI was "fed" with Beethoven's compositions and the sketches for his 10th Symphony as well as works from composers and musicians that influenced Beethoven including Johann Sebastian Bach.