One of the most influential composers of the renaissance period. His date of birth was thought to be c.1440 but this was revised in 1998.  He was at the court of King René of Anjou in 1475, in the papal chapel from 1486 to 1495, employed by the Duke of Ferrara from 1503 to 1504, then a provost of Notre Dame, Condé until his death in 1521.