AI and Beethoven: Can Machines Compose Like the Master?
Artificial intelligence can generate sonatas, string quartets, and piano miniatures in a Beethoven-like style, but composing like Beethoven involves far more than imitating surface patterns. In music technology, “AI composition” usually means software models trained on symbolic scores, audio recordings, or both to predict which notes, rhythms, harmonies, and textures should come next. “Style emulation” means the system learns recurrent