In a world where music companies use time travel to plumb the past for new pop hits, junior account executive Lester Krieg (no relation to my favorite Seattle Seahawk quarterback) comes up with the idea of getting Beethoven to write a tenth symphony—regardless of the cost.
Everybody and his brother Jake knows that Beethoven wrote nine symphonies and stopped there. And even the dimmest of music lovers has wish fulfillment fantasies about what a tenth would have sounded like.

Variants

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  1. “The Beethoven Affair” by Donald Moffitt, in Analog, April 2008.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Donald Moffitt