Beethoven's unfinished 10th Symphony world premiere

[WilliamPlanke]

A fascinating and well written article about the completion of an unfinished symphony using artificial intelligence (AI) computer technology. Some audio included.

Now, thanks to the work of a team of music historians, musicologists, composers and computer scientists, Beethoven’s vision will come to life.

A full recording of Beethoven’s 10th Symphony is set to be released on Oct. 9, 2021, the same day as the world premiere performance scheduled to take place in Bonn, Germany – the culmination of a two-year-plus effort.

https://bigthink.com/high-culture/beethovens-unfinished-10th-symphony/

[Blue Owl]

1. Could it eclipse the Ninth?

Seems unlikely...

[bahboo]

2. I'll certainly check this out when released....

[HUAJIAO]

3. The 'excerpt' sounds like a childish immitation of a bunch of snippets taken mostly

from three of the movements of the 5th symphony and pasted together in no particular order.

[carpetbagger]

4. Completely agree.

I was at the American premiere of Cooper's reconstruction in 1988 (I'm not that connected, I just happened to be in a chorus that covered another part of the program). The movement he did was a reasonable effort. Beethoven wouldn't have rebooted the 5th. Lots of other good composers might have (and it's a fair way to extrapolate from sketches of Bruckner's 9th and Mahler's 10th, but not Beethoven).

Beethoven was considering a choral finale to the 10th. I think we'll eventually get to an AI that will figure it out, but the work, if completed, would have evolved with new inspiration and input, that would have been hard to guess.

But for now we've got Brahms' first.

[HUAJIAO]

5. In rehearsal for Brahms 2 now. :)))