Photo: DPA'Scope for improvement'Beethoven began working on the Tenth Symphony alongside his Ninth, which includes the world-famous "Ode To Joy". In the project, machine-learning software has been fed all of Beethoven's work and is now composing possible continuations of the symphony in the composer's style. Barry Cooper, a British composer and musicologist who himself wrote a hypothetical first movement for the Tenth Symphony in 1988, was more doubtful. Cooper warned that "in any performance of Beethoven's music, there is a risk of distorting his intentions" but this was particularly the case for the Tenth Symphony as the German composer had left only fragmentary material. A project earlier this year to complete Schubert's Eighth Symphony was seen by some reviewers as being closer to an American film soundtrack than the Austrian composer's work.

Source: The Local December 13, 2019 16:30 UTC