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This statement feels too strong. An algorithm completed Beethoven's tenth symphony, and it did a passable job, maybe better than what a graduate student could achieve. That's exciting for tool-assisted composition, even if it tells us nothing about Beethoven's historical vision for the symphony.

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Agree! This is great and exciting. When people learn to play music composed by someone else, they are experiencing/living to some degree the mind of the composer. And music can fairly be described as sets of repeatable patterns. So if AI can take the entirety of a composer's life's work and discern key patterns, replicate them even, then some aspect of the mind of the composer is reborn. This is immortality. A dedicated grad student could probably do it for one composer; AI can do it for ALL composers. And humanity is all the better for it :)

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