MUSIC

The controversial reconstruction of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 10 will have its West Coast premiere this weekend when the San Jose Symphony performs the work, which has been realized and completed by British musicologist and composer Barry Cooper. The symphony, which met with mixed reviews after performances in London and New York, will be performed tonight and Saturday at 8:30 in the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, as part of a program also including music of Wagner, Copland and Brahms. George Cleve will conduct. Cooper, who will attend the San Jose performances, completed the work after finding Beethoven’s preliminary sketches. “Some feel it was presumptuous of Barry (to complete the work) and that there was not enough there for him to finish the movement,” said Bill Meredith, director of the Beethoven Center in San Jose. “But Barry is a world-known Beethoven scholar . . . and he can really fake Beethoven very well.”