Finalmusik [Ger., final music]

In the Classical period, a type of piece belonging to the family also bearing names such as *cassation, *serenade, and *divertimento and performed at the end of a concert or, especially in the case of the works to which Leopold and W.A. Mozart referred with this term (e.g., K. 185 [167a], 251), at the end of the summer semester of the university in Salzburg.