Johann Nepomuk Mälzel (1772-1838)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/66511
- Name (English)
- Johann Nepomuk Mälzel
- Short name
- Johann Nepomuk Maelzel
- Year of birth
- 1772
- Year of death
- 1838
- Short Description
- "Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (or Mälzel; August 15, 1772 – July 21, 1838) was a German inventor, engineer, and showman, best known for manufacturing a metronome and several music-playing automatons, and displaying a fraudulent chess machine. He worked with Beethoven to compose a piece of music for one of his inventions." - (en.wikipedia.org 11.08.2021)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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