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Sep 26, 2021 · The AI version of Beethoven's 10th symphony is almost as immaculate as the master composer's original works. Listen to a preview here.
- Past Attempts Hit A Wall
- Assembling The Team
- The Project Takes Shape
- Piecing Together Beethoven’s Creative Process
- Passing The First Big Test
Around 1817, the Royal Philharmonic Society in London commissioned Beethoven to write his Ninth and Tenth symphonies. Written for an orchestra, symphonies often contain four movements: the first is performed at a fast tempo, the second at a slower one, the third at a medium or fast tempo, and the last at a fast tempo. Beethoven completed his Ninth ...
In early 2019, Dr. Matthias Röder, the director of the Karajan Institute, an organization in Salzburg, Austria, that promotes music technology, contacted me. He explained that he was putting together a team to complete Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony in celebration of the composer’s 250th birthday. Aware of my work on A.I.-generated art, he wanted to kn...
In June 2019, the group gathered for a two-day workshop at Harvard’s music library. In a large room with a piano, a blackboard and a stack of Beethoven’s sketchbooks spanning most of his known works, we talked about how fragments could be turned into a complete piece of music and how A.I. could help solve this puzzle, while still remaining faithful...
As the project progressed, the human side and the machine side of the collaboration evolved. Werzowa, Gotham, Levin, and Röder deciphered and transcribed the sketches from the Tenth Symphony, trying to understand Beethoven’s intentions. Using his completed symphonies as a template, they attempted to piece together the puzzle of where the fragments ...
In November 2019, the team met in person again - this time, in Bonn, at the Beethoven House Museum, where the composer was born and raised. This meeting was the litmus test for determining whether A.I. could complete this project. We printed musical scores that had been developed by A.I. and built off the sketches from Beethoven’s Tenth. A pianist ...
Aug 16, 2021 · The world premiere of Beethoven’s 10th Symphony, which has been completed with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), will take place on 9 October 2021 at the Telekom Forum in Bonn. The ...
Written for an orchestra, symphonies often contain four movements: the first is performed at a fast tempo, the second at a slower one, the third at a medium or fast tempo, and the last at a fast tempo. Beethoven completed his Ninth Symphony in 1824, which concludes with the timeless " Ode to Joy ." But when it came to the 10th Symphony ...
Oct 2, 2021 · A group of musicians and scientists have used artificial intelligence to complete one of the great what-ifs in classical music: Ludwig van Beethoven's unfinished 10th symphony.
Oct 14, 2021 · In 2020, Ludwig van Beethoven would have turned 250. To celebrate the composer’s genius, this year’s edition of the BeethovenFest in Bonn, Germany, offered the public a unique gift: the 10th ...
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Oct 15, 2021 · Beethoven’s handwritten notes on the second and third movements are meager—not enough to compose a symphony. Werzowa: A movement of a symphony can have up to 40,000 notes. And some of his ...
