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An ending ornament — one or two notes at the end of a trill that lead smoothly into the next note. Literally "after-stroke."
A trill with a Nachschlag has two small notes at its end — typically stepping down then back up to the destination note. It provides a graceful conclusion to the trill. Some composers write the Nachschlag out; others expect performers to add it by convention.
Mozart's trills conventionally include a Nachschlag even when not written — the turn at the end of the trill that smooths the transition to the next note.
Nachschlag is one of 1760 terms in the Gradus musical dictionary: the words, abbreviations and instrument names that appear in printed scores, plus the vocabulary composers use to talk about them.
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