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Amy Woodforde-Finden (186013 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 Amelia Rowe Ward in 1860 at Valparaíso, Chile, the youngest daughter of American parents, Alfred and Virginia Worthington Heath Ward. Alfred served as an US Consul after being recommended by Baile Peyton, US Ambassador to Chile under President Zachary Taylor. Her father died in 1867 and her mother moved the family to London, where Virginia became a naturalized British citizen in 1873. 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 received only tepidly. At the age of 34, she married Lieutenant-Colonel Woodforde Woodforde-Finden, a brigadier and surgeon in the Indian Army; they lived in India for several years, and during her time there she wrote and published what would become her most famous pieces: ''The Lover in Damascus'' and ''Kashmiri Song''. The latter was originally self-published in 1902 but because of its popularity and the influence of Hamilton Earle, it was eventually published by Boosey & Co. The popularity of ''Kashmiri Song'' and ''The Lover in Damascus'' kept her in the good graces of her publishing house and in the hearts of her audience. Her songs are noted for their sentimentality, their romantic fluidity and how they blend a particularly British, middle-class sensibility with an Asian pastiche. In the years that followed the success of ''Kashmiri Song'', Amy composed ''On Jhelum River'', ''The Pagoda of Flowers'' and ''Stars of the Desert''. The year 1916 was a bitter-sweet one for Amy: she lost her husband in April and her work was featured in the film ''Less Than the Dust''.〔''Less Than the Dust'' was a silent film of 1916. Set in India, it starred Mary Pickford as an abandoned English girl who believes she is Hindu, with David Powell as the British army captain saved by her, who eventually she marries.〕 This was just the first of her work to be showcased in film. In 1943 ''Kashmiri Song'' would be used in the film ''Hers To Hold''. Amy moved back to London after she lost her husband, and survived him by only three years, dying on 13 March 1919. It is said that she died composing at the piano. Amy is buried in Hampsthwaite churchyard in North Yorkshire, and her memorial is a recumbent figure in white marble. The legacy Amy Woodforde-Finden leaves is one of bridging cultures with music and words. She interpreted the sounds and motives of Asian-South Asian music to an American-European audience and transported the listener to a world of romance and the exotic. ==See also== * Orientalism * Music of India 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amy Woodforde-Finden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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