AI helps complete Beethoven's Tenth Symphony


(R-L) Florian Colombo and Guillaume Berney look at a music score on a computer screen, the two working on an AI to write Beethoven's unfinished symphony. — AFP

As conductor Guillaume Berney marks the opening downbeat, the first chords ring out in a Lausanne concert hall of what could conceivably be an extract of Beethoven's Tenth Symphony – if the great German composer had ever managed to complete the piece.

The classical music world has often speculated what Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) would have gone on to write after his monumental Ninth Symphony.

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