What nationality was the female composer who came before Shirley Anne Walker?
Shirley Walker Shirley Anne Walker (née Rogers, April 10, 1945 – November 30, 2006) was an American film and television composer and conductor. She was one of the few female film score composers working in Hollywood. Walker was one of the first female composers to earn a solo score credit on a major Hollywood motion picture (preceded by Suzanne Ciani, who wrote the complete score to the film "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" in 1980, released January 1981) and according to the "Los Angeles Times", will be remembered as a pioneer for women in the film industry.
Antoinette Kirkwood Antoinette Kirkwood (born 1930) is an English composer born in London. She studied piano and composition with Dorothy Howell at the Royal Academy in London and often accompanied her mother, who was a lieder singer. For four years beginning in 1969, she was a member of the Executive Committee of the Composers’ Guild of Great Britain, now the British Association of Composers and Songwriters. Radio Éireann broadcast her music. This “very notable achievement” established that Kirkwood “can write a memorable tune in a definite key” that will captivate the listener