His ideas were quickly patented by the enterprising and underhanded Johann Maelzel (who at least did invent the name “metronome”) in 1815, and the Maelzel metronome is still available today.

Beethoven got his metronome from a man named Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, who was something of a mechanical wizard. He made little musical automatons, tiny robots that could play music that the public ...

The inventor of the metronome, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel persuaded Beethoven to write Wellington's Victory (Battle Symphony), but their friendship wasn't to last. Maelzel is known today as the inventor ...

Johannes Maelzel was known as the inventor of the Maelzel Metronome-or M.M., as it is still abbreviated in sheet music. Beethoven's use of metronome markings helped to popularize Maelzel's musical ...

In 1815, Johann Nepomuk Mälzel patented a metronome, and Ludwig van Beethoven embraced the new instrument as a way of letting performers know what tempos they should take for his music.

September 14, 1815.—The metronome, as it is known today, was patented in France on Sept. 14, 1815, by J. N. Mälzel of Ratisbon, who was a friend of Beethoven and a wellknown mechanician who ...

The inventor of the metronome, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel persuaded Beethoven to write Wellington's Victory (Battle Symphony), but their friendship wasn't to last. Maelzel is known today as the inventor ...

Johannes Maelzel was known as the inventor of the Maelzel Metronome-or M.M., as it is still abbreviated in sheet music. Beethoven knew Maelzel personally and helped to popularize his musical gizmo ...