# What is your favorite posthumous music release

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**Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony**  
No joke.

> **[Symphony No. 10 (Beethoven/Cooper)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._10_%28Beethoven/Cooper%29)**
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> Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 10 in E♭ major is a hypothetical work, assembled in 1988 by Barry Cooper from Beethoven's fragmentary sketches for the first movement. All the sketches assembled were clearly intended for the same symphony, which would have followed the Ninth, since they appear together in several small groups, and there is consensus that Beethoven did intend to compose another symphony. Cooper's score was first performed at a concert given in 1988 by the Royal Philharmonic So...

[http://www.lvbeethoven.com/Cedes/TheCds\_SymphonyTenth.html](http://www.lvbeethoven.com/Cedes/TheCds_SymphonyTenth.html)

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Queen _Made in Heaven_

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**Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-posthumous-music-release/536799/23 "2010-04-21T17:22:46Z")

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> [@I'm Not Dennis Bergkamp](#):
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> Mine is Elliott Smith’s [From a Basement on the Hill](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_a_Basement_on_the_Hill), which was released on October 19, 2004, almost a year to the day after Smith’s death from stab wounds to the chest (likely self-inflicted, though I don’t think that’s ever been officially determined).
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> Here’s a YouTube link to the first track, [Coast to Coast](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAvqZsRhjwk).

I agree, this CD is only made more chilling by his death, I would say this is mine too

lately I have been getting into Jimi Hendrix - Valley’s of Neptune, got a free download off this [FB group](http://www.facebook.com/scattertunes) and really started to dig it.

I would even say the most blasphemous thing that the hendrix guitar work of “Smoke on the Water” is better than slow hands, lol, flame me now!

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