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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
imageThroughout 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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