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===Metronome markings=== Conductors in the [[historically informed performance]] movement, notably [[Roger Norrington]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Norrington|first=Roger|author-link=Roger Norrington|title=In tune with the time|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/mar/14/beethoven|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=14 March 2009|access-date=15 May 2013|location=London}}</ref> have used Beethoven's suggested tempos, to mixed reviews. [[Benjamin Zander]] has made a case for following Beethoven's [[metronome]] markings, both in writing<ref name="Zander" /> and in performances with the [[Boston Philharmonic Orchestra]] and Philharmonia Orchestra of London.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Holland |first=Bernard|author-link=Bernard Holland|date=1983-10-11 |title=Concert: Beethoven 9th, Benjamin Zander and the Boston Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/11/arts/concert-beethoven-9th.html |access-date=2025-03-25|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-Symphony-No-Dominique-Labelle/dp/B00000IGQ6 Recording of the Beethoven 9th] with Benjamin Zander, Dominique Labelle, D'Anna Fortunato, Brad Cresswell, David Arnold, the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, and [[Chorus pro Musica]].</ref> Beethoven's metronome still exists and was tested and found accurate,<ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5-9Cdy-Y-M8C&pg=PA34| title =The Compleat Conductor| isbn = 978-0-19-984058-8| last1 = Schuller| first1 = Gunther| date = 10 December 1998| publisher = Oxford University Press}}</ref> but the original heavy weight (whose position is vital to its accuracy) is missing and many musicians have considered his metronome marks to be unacceptably high.<ref>Sture Forsén, Harry B. Gray, L. K. Olof Lindgren, and Shirley B. Gray. October 2013. [http://www.ams.org/notices/201309/rnoti-p1146.pdf "Was Something Wrong with Beethoven's Metronome?"], ''Notices of the [[American Mathematical Society]]'' 60(9):1146–1153.</ref>
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