Most good musicians have spent their most frustrating and most victorious moments in the presence of the unwavering click of their metronome.

Mathematic and musical detectives have discovered that perhaps Beethoven's tempo was so strange because his metronome was broken ...

Beethoven's use of metronome markings helped to popularize Maelzel's musical gizmo. Another Maelzel invention, which failed to catch on, was the Panharmonicon.

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

Beethoven got his metronome from Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, its inventor, and some musicologists have suggested that Beethoven's metronome was faulty.

Friday in a sold-out concert at Symphony Hall, Zander and the BPO reminded us that the real Beethoven was a revolutionary.

Johann Nepomuk Maelzel made a similar device and was granted a patent for the Maelzel Metronome in 1816. The “MM” numbers on music indicate the number of beats per minute.

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 ...

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.