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Scientist of the Day - Johann Nepomuk Maelzel
Original Maelzel Metronom, ca 1815 (Wikimedia commons)
Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, a German musician, inventor, and showman, was born Aug. 15, 1772, in Regensburg. Maelzel invented and built several musical automata. One, known as the Panharmonicon or Orchestrion, could produce all the sounds of a full orchestra; the first one appeared in 1804. Another was an automated trumpet player (1809), which (unlike the Panharmonicon) actually looked like a human musician and played better than most.
Maelzel is also known for being an on-again, off-again, friend of Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven actually wrote a piece for Maelzel's Panharmonicon, “Wellington’s Victory,” and the two intended to travel to England together, a trip that was never realized as their relationship soured. Maelzel even made some ear-trumpets for Beethoven, as his deafness grew worse. Four Maelzel ear-trumpets (second image), made about 1813, survive in the Beethoven Haus in Bonn (if you search for Maelzel on the Beethoven Haus website, be sure to use the German spelling “Mälzel” as your search word).
Ear trumpets made for Ludwig van Beethoven by Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, 1813, Beethoven-Haus Bonn (beethoven.de)
In 1816, Maelzel patented and bega
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Title:Metronome
Maker:Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (German, Regensburg 1772–1838 La Guaira, Venezuela)
Date:ca. 1821
Geography:Paris, France
Culture:French
Medium:Mahogany, tulipwood, brass
Dimensions:H.: 28 cm (11.02 in.); Base: 7.1 cm (2.8.in.) square; (bottom); Base: 9.1 cm (3.6 in.) tall
Classification:Idiophone-Accessories
Credit Line:Purchase, The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, by exchange, 1979
Object Number:1979.1.2
Marking: 1) (printed on paper label) Par/Brevet de Invention/Metronome /de/Maelzel/Paris; 2) (stamped on pendulum below numbers) Maelzel
Ed. Stanley Sadie. The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments: G-O. © Macmillan Publishers Limited 1980. London & New York, 1984, vol. 2, p. 649, fig. 3, ill.
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