THESE DAYS, anyone with a computer can be a composer. Sort of. Give a piece of commercial software such as Magenta, developed by Google, the first few notes of a song, and it will make something ...

HAMBURG (dpa) – Imagine being able to compose like Beethoven, just once. Or like Johann Sebastian Bach. Or even Oasis. That’s the dream of many musically-talented computer users. That’s also why ...

For the past two centuries, composers, academics and fans of classical music have puzzled over Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 8, which he abandoned in 1822 after writing the first two movements. Why ...