4. Illustration of the Panharmonicon from the journal L'Illustration, May 25, 1846

Maelzel sold his first Panharmonicon in Paris in 1807 and built a second, improved version not long afterward. From 1812 he displayed the second version as part of a public exhibition in Vienna, where its playlist included Cherubini's overture to Lodoïska, Haydn's "Military" Symphony, the overture and chorus from Handel's Timotheus, and Cherubini's Air pour le Panharmonicon.