Which composer said, “Friends applaud, the comedy is finished"?

Although his last words are much disputed, the larger-than-life composer, Ludwig Van Beethoven, is said to have borrowed the tagline from contemporary Latin plays as his final bow before he died of lead poisoning in 1827. "Plaudite, amici, comoedia finita est" – "Friends applaud, the comedy is finished."

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