Beethoven's Unfinished Tenth Symphony Gets Completed by Artificial Intelligence: Hear How It Sounds

Few symphonies are as well-known as Beethoven's Ninth, an assertion supported by the fact that it's no doubt playing in your head even as you read this. Few symphonies are less well-known -- at least by Beethoven's standards -- than his Tenth, primarily because he never actually got the thing finished. He did make a start on it, however, and at his death in 1827 left behind notes and drafts composed alongside the Ninth, which had also been commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society. Such is Beethoven's stature that his enthusiasts have been speculating ever since on what his incomplete symphony would sound like if completed, employing any techniques to do so that their time put at hand. "In 1988, musicologist Barry Cooper ventured to complete the first and second movements," writes Rutgers University Art & AI Lab director Ahmed Elgammal at The Conversation.