Which French composer spent much of his career in Italy, where he worked for

various dukes as well as in the Sistine Chapel in Rome? Although he possessed
a temperamental and egotistical personality, because of his remarkable talent he
could command a large salary and like the artist Michelangelo was considered to
be a prodigy of nature and without peer.



a. Josquin
b. Machaut
c. Palestrina
d. Corelli
e. Vivaldi

A

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