The greatest composer of all time only lived to be 56 years of age and the Grand Maestro had so much, much more music to compose. One of the torch-bearers at Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral was the pioneering Franz Schubert who lived in the shadow of the great composer in Vienna. Schubert, himself a musical visionary, worshipped Beethoven at a distance and even though both composers lived in Vienna at the same time, there is no evidence to support that they ever met. Beethoven's 9th Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 (Ode to Joy') is the national anthem of the European Union (EU). In Japan, "Ode to Joy" is played nationwide on Christmas and New Year's Eve.
Maestro's Arturo Toscanini and Herbert von Karajan conducted robust high tempo versions of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, both versions slightly over one hour. One of the challenges conductors have had over the decades was performing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in exactly one hour, like this: Beethoven's 9th in One Hour.
And this is what Beethoven's Tenth Symphony in E-flat major might have sounded like, as pieced together in 1988 by Barry Cooper from the Immortal Maestro's fragmentary sketches for the first movement. Barry Cooper used no AI in his hypothetical arrangement: Beethoven's Tenth Symphony (Unfinished)
