The internet gets better and better.

Amen. It's haphazard, but you can already find stuff from home that only the best research libraries had fifteen years ago.

I remember the phase as, "finita la musica, passata la festa". Or is that something not connected with this?

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freejhon,

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Maybe it's a pseudo-Italian calque of the French expression "Finie la comédie!" (meaning "let's be serious now" - this could be said to a child who has been acting up).

That could be, since in the early nineteenth century the Russian aristocracy (i.e., the literate class) was at least as fluent in French as in Russian.

John,

Also not connected to this is the English phrase, "The song is ended, but the melody lingers on."