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Could anybody help by telling me all the works that Beethoven added metronome markings to or direct me to a web article which lists them?

Start with this: http://lvbandmore.blogspot.com/2011/03/ ... empos.html
And perhaps this: http://home.roadrunner.com/~frethoa/beetmm.txt

Thanks for the links. The first one seems to be just the sort of thing I was looking for.

     Is there any truth in the idea I read many years ago (in a now-forgotten source) that, for many years, Beethoven's metronome was faulty and ran too fast, and he didn't know it, so that most of his metronome markings can not be relied on?

M.J.E. wrote:Is there any truth in the idea I read many years ago (in a now-forgotten source) that, for many years, Beethoven's metronome was faulty and ran too fast, and he didn't know it, so that most of his metronome markings can not be relied on?

I thought his markings were usually said to be unexpectedly fast; but if his metronome ran too fast, wouldn't that have caused him to write slower markings than he really intended?

     It was a long time ago I read it, so I might have got details wrong. Maybe Beethoven's metronome ran too slow rather than too fast; and, in any case, I didn't remember whether the markings were generally considered too slow or too fast anyway - just that their reliability was suspect (according to my source).
     I was just wondering whether this is a well-founded view or not.

If you research Beethoven's metronome markings, you will find at least a few interesting presentations regarding the subject.