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Amy Woodforde-Finden (1860 – 13 March 1919) was a composer who is best known for writing the music to "Kashmiri Song" from Four Indian Love Lyrics by Laurence Hope. Amy Woodforde-Finden was born Amy Ward in 1860 at Valparaíso, Chile, to an American officer serving as British Consul, and a British mother. She was one of nine children, and when her father was killed, her mother relocated the family to London. Around that time Amy displayed a skill for composition and became a student of Carl Schloesser and Amy Horrocks. Her early work, published as Amy Ward, though promising, was...