Johann Nepomuk Maelzel
German musician
Also known as: Johann Nepomuk MƤlzel
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Johann Nepomuk Maelzel was a German musician and inventor, best known for perfecting the metronome. While Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel is credited with inventing the metronome, Maelzel was more successful in marketing it and even has a notation named after him, "M.M." (Maelzel's metronome), indicating tempo. Maelzel also invented a mechanical orchestra called the panharmonicon, for which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote a piece.1234
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