Artificial Intelligence Completes Beethoven's Tenth Symphony Reconstruction

In October 2021 in Bonn, researchers used an AI system to complete and premiere the third and fourth movements of Beethoven’s unfinished Tenth Symphony. The project, involving AIVA—now registered with France’s SACEM—and leveraging models like Google’s MusicLM, sparked debate over authenticity, copyright, royalties, and AI’s role as collaborator or replacement.