Beethoven’s unfinished tenth symphony to be completed ...
... by artificial intelligence Beethoven’s unfinished tenth symphony to be completed by artificial intelligence. Picture: Getty By Maddy Shaw Roberts 16K Beethoven’s unfinished symphony is set to be completed by artificial intelligence, in the run-up to celebrations around the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. A computer is set to complete Beethoven ’s unfinished tenth symphony, in the most ambitious project of its kind. Artificial intelligence has recently been used to complete Schubert ’s ‘Unfinished’ Symphony No. 8, as well as to attempt to match the playing of revered 20th-century pianist, Glenn Gould. Beethoven famously wrote nine symphonies (you can read more here about the Curse of the Ninth). But alongside his Symphony No. 9, which contains the ‘Ode to Joy’, there is evidence that he began writing a tenth. Unfortunately, when the German composer ...