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How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven's unfinished 10th Symphony

  • Written by Ahmed Elgammal, Professor, Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven's unfinished 10th SymphonyThroughout the project, Beethoven's genius loomed.Circe Denyer

When Ludwig von Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many as his magnum opus. He had started work on his 10th Symphony but, due to deteriorating health, wasn’t able to make much headway: All he left behind...

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