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:  Josquin Desprez was a : composer of the Renaissance and : one of the most influential (effect) : figures of Western music. Born in : Hainaut he probably received his music training at Cambrai, : France. In 1459 he became a singer at the cathedral in Milan : and was working there until 1472. The he worked for Galeazzo : Sforza, duke of Milan. After Galeazzo's death in 1476, Josquin : joined the entourage(bodyguards and friends, a group of : people) of the duke's brother Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, he : remained probably until September 1486, when he became a : papal singer in Rome. Then he began a period of traveling in : Italy, France, and the Low Countries. In the papal chapel from : June 1489 through November 1494, he was nominated for : several important benefices (to do good for) by the pope. After a : period in France and then in Italy at the court of Ferrara, : Josquin came back to Hainaut in May 1504, where he served as : provost of the local church at Conde until his death.

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