Did AI just kill classical music?

[Ilja]

Well, there IS Siegfried Wagner's symphony in C of 1925, of course. Quite mature, and a pretty good piece in my view.

Scriabin as a Wagnerian is certainly a hot take.

[Maury]

I think this is more of an issue for pop music. You have to always follow the money. Paying royalties is a big expense of streaming music. So "AI" (as it is currently very loosely and sloppily defined)  allows someone to generate music "in the style of" and avoid royalty payments. Any more positive use is just icing on the royalty cake. Since classical music is such a small percentage of music streaming it doesn't make any sense for those streamers to worry about it. I think the aspect stated above where printed music is played back through software is helpful but also no big deal. Playback software of scores has existed for over 25 years commercially and not really AI.

[eschiss1]

While some early Myaskovsky (including parts, but not all, of his lovely and passionate 2nd symphony, and maybe some of the 3rd as well) makes me think of Scriabin's symphonies, symphonic Scriabin doesn't make me think of Wagner in the same way. (There really are composers who do, though...)