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Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (or Mälzel;
August 15, 1772 – July 21, 1838) was a
German inventor, engineer, and showman, best
known for
manufacturing a metronome...
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Andalusian polymath Abbas ibn
Firnas (810–887). In 1815,
German inventor Johann Maelzel patented a mechanical, wind-up
metronome as a tool for musicians, under...
- Maillardet's
automaton (or Draughtsman-Writer,
sometime also
known as
Maelzel's Juvenile Artist or
Juvenile Artist) is an
automaton built in
London c...
- "
Maelzel's Chess Player" (1836) is an
essay by
Edgar Allan Poe
exposing a
fraudulent automaton chess player called The Turk,
which had
become famous in...
- that
Maelzel was not to
leave the
Continent to give such exhibitions. The
latter account I
believe to be the more
correct one.": 426 "Mr.
Maelzel, who...
- po****r
during the
first half of the 19th century,
after Johann Nepomuk Maelzel invented the metronome.
Beethoven was one of the
first composers to use...
- a
coalition led by the Duke of Wellington. The
inventor Johann Nepomuk Maelzel persuaded him to
write a work
commemorating the
event for his mechanical...
- Beethoven's friend,
Johann Maelzel.
Specifically the
belief was that the
movement was
based on a
canon called "Ta ta ta...
Lieber Maelzel," WoO 162, said to have...
- the type of
reeds used in his
Panharmonicon to free reed pipes. Vogler,
Maelzel and
Friedrich Kaufmann were then at the same time in
Paris in 1807. From...
- Many
publishers precede the
marking with
letters "M.M.",
referring to
Maelzel's Metronome. This is a
tempo marking, not a time signature—it is independent...
