Edward Redding was an American composer born in 1916, best known for writing The End of a Love Affair, a sophisticated ballad that became a jazz standard after its composition in the late 1940s. The song has been recorded by numerous artists and remains a staple of the vocal jazz repertoire, prized for its extended form and bittersweet lyrical narrative. Beyond this signature work, very little is documented about Redding's broader compositional output. Some sources connect him to work as a lawyer and playwright, and there are references linking the name to the libretto for Victor Herbert's 1911 opera Natoma, though this attribution remains uncertain. Redding died on July 19, 1984.
