Artificial intelligence completes Beethoven's Symphony No X

A team of international experts using artificial intelligence has completed Beethoven's unfinished Symphony No X. 

As we know, artificial intelligence (AI) is already capable of understanding different aspects of music and creating new music based on existing pieces. For the latest story, you'll have to travel to Germany, where a group of international scientists, composers, music historians and technologists, at the initiative of Deutsche Telekom, have decided to complete Beethoven's unfinished Symphony No. X.

In the last years of his life, the world-famous German composer began writing new music, but his death in 1827 meant that he was unable to complete the piece, leaving only a few sketches of the planned Symphony No.X. The result of a collaborative project between experts and artificial intelligence, the work, which captured the imagination of many, was finally written in 2020 and was originally scheduled to be performed on the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in 2020, but was postponed until October 2021 due to the epidemic.

The work, which will take 730 days to complete, will be presented in Beethoven's hometown of Bonn, but Hungarian Telekom will also host a special event in Hungary on 13 October, following the premiere on 9 October, where experts will give an insight into the behind-the-scenes of machine composition.

This is not the first time that the machine intelligence help to complete abandoned products: the Huawei developed by an artificial intelligence has completed Franz Schubert's Symphony No VIII, while another has completed Gustav Mahler's Symphony No X.