AI puts final notes on Beethoven's Tenth Symphony

Sheet music with part of the completion of Beethoven's 10th symphony made using artificial intelligence. — AFP Relaxnews

A few notes scribbled in his notebook are all that German composer Ludwig van Beethoven left of his Tenth Symphony before his death in 1827.

Now, a team of musicologists and programmers is racing to complete a version of the piece using artificial intelligence, ahead of the 250th anniversary of his birth next year.