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Johann Nepomuk Maelzel Mälzel ( August 15, 1772 – July 21, 1838 ) was a German inventor, engineer, and showman, best known for manufacturing a metronome and several music automatons, and displaying a fraudulent chess machine.
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), Moritz Count von Dietrichstein, Heinrich Eduard Josef Baron von Lannoy, Ignaz Franz Baron von Mosel, Carl Czerny, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles, and the eight-year-old Franz Liszt ( although it seems Liszt was not invited personally, but his teacher Czerny arranged for him to be involved ).
Anthony ( Dresden, 27 December 1755 – Dresden, 6 June 1836 ), also known by his German name Anton ( full name: Anton Clemens Theodor Maria Joseph Johann Evangelista Johann Nepomuk Franz Xavier Aloys Januar ), was a King of Saxony ( 1827 – 1836 ) from the House of Wettin.
Franz Schubert is also something of a transitional figure, as are Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Mauro Giuliani, Friedrich Kuhlau, Fernando Sor, Luigi Cherubini, Jan Ladislav Dussek, and Carl Maria von Weber.
Somewhat younger than the others, though equally accomplished because of his youthful study under Mozart and his native virtuosity, was Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
Other works for this instrumentation written from roughly the same period include those by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, George Onslow, Jan Ladislav Dussek, Louise Farrenc, Ferdinand Ries, Franz Limmer, Johann Baptist Cramer, and Hermann Goetz.
Frederick Augustus II ( full name: Frederick Augustus Albert Maria Clemens Joseph Vincenz Aloys Nepomuk Johann Baptista Nikolaus Raphael Peter Xavier Franz de Paula Venantius Felix ) ( Dresden, 18 May 1797 – Brennbüchel, Karrösten, Tyrol, 9 August 1854 ) was King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.
Huns in battle with the Alans, 1870s engraving after a drawing by Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger | Johann Nepomuk Geiger ( 1805 – 1880 ).
Among these were Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles, Josef Weigl ( 1766 – 1846 ), Ludwig-Wilhelm Tepper de Ferguson ( 1768after 1824 ), Antonio Casimir Cartellieri, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart.
Mozart's most famous pupil, whom the Mozarts took into their Vienna home for two years as a child, was probably Johann Nepomuk Hummel, a transitional figure between Classical and Romantic eras.
Later that year, Weber traveled to Munich to study with the singer Johann Evangelist Wallishauser and organist Johann Nepomuk Kalcher.
Frederick Augustus I ( full name: Frederick Augustus Joseph Maria Anton Johann Nepomuk Aloys Xavier ) (; 23 December 1750 – 5 May 1827 ) was King of Saxony ( 1805 – 1827 ) from the House of Wettin.
# Karl Maximilian Maria Anton Johann Nepomuk Aloys Franz Xavier Januar ( b. Dresden, 24 September 1752-d. Dresden, 8 September 1781 ) died unmarried.
Influenced by Domenico Scarlatti's harpsichord school and Haydn's classical school and by the stile galante of Johann Christian Bach and Ignazio Cirri, Clementi developed a fluent, technical legato style which he passed on to an entire generation of pianists, including John Field, Johann Baptist Cramer, Ignaz Moscheles, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Carl Czerny.
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The metronome dates from the early 19th century, where it was patented by Johann Maelzel in 1815 as a tool for musicians, under the title " Instrument / Machine for the Improvement of all Musical Performance, called Metronome ".
Through questionable practice, Johann Maelzel, incorporating Winkel's ideas added a scale and called it metronome, started manufacturing the metronome under his own name in 1816: " Maelzel's Metronome ".
There is a widespread belief that this movement is an affectionate parody of the metronome, which had only recently been invented ( or more accurately, merely improved ) by Beethoven's friend Johann Maelzel.
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When news came to Vienna in late July of that year, Johann Nepomuk Mälzel commissioned Ludwig van Beethoven to compose a symphony, the op.
When the device was later purchased in 1804 and exhibited by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, the chess masters who secretly operated it included Johann Allgaier, Boncourt, Aaron Alexandre, William Lewis, Jacques Mouret, and William Schlumberger.
While Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, a later owner of the machine, did not use the box, Kempelen often peered into the box during play, suggesting that the box controlled some aspect of the machine.
Following the death of Kempelen, the Turk remained un-exhibited until some time before 1804 when Kempelen's son decided to sell it to Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, a Bavarian musician with an interest in various machines and devices.
According to an eyewitness report, Mälzel took responsibility for the construction of the machine while preparing the game, and the Turk ( Johann Baptist Allgaier ) saluted Napoleon prior to the start of the match.
An advertisement for Johann Nepomuk Mälzel | Mälzel's appearance with the Turk in LondonFollowing the repurchase, Mälzel brought the Turk back to Paris where he made acquaintances of many of the leading chess players at Café de la Régence.
The Panharmonicon was a musical instrument invented in 1805 by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, a contemporary and friend of Beethoven.
Fol low ing a major military vic tory over Joseph Bonaparte's armies in Spain at the Battle of Vitoria on 21 June 1813, Beethoven ’ s friend Johann Mälzel talked the com poser into writ ing a com po si tion com mem o rat ing this bat tle which he could notate on his ‘ mechan i cal orches tra ’: the panharmonicon.
Johann Mälzel, known today primarily for patenting the metronome, convinced Beethoven to write a short piece commemorating Wellington's victory for his invention, called the panharmonicon.
Unfortunately he did not appropriately protect his idea, and by 1816, Johann Nepomuk Mälzel added a Scale to the Instrument and patented it as Mälzel Metronome, which remains in use to this day.
The first known automatic playing orchestrion was the panharmonicon, invented in 1805 by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel.
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