Sick-room Visitors—“Plaudite, amici, comœdia finita est!” The Viaticum—Death and Burial

Among the visitors to the sick man were Schuppanzigh and Linke, to whom Beethoven showed his Handel scores. Diabelli also came, bringing a picture of Haydn’s birthplace. “Look,” said Beethoven to young Gerhard von Breuning; “I got this to-day. See this little house, and in it so great a man was born.”