Question: Désiré-Alexandre Batton, was a French composer, and was a student of which Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France, and Beethoven regarded him as the greatest of his contemporaries?
Sentence (from "Désiré-Alexandre Batton"): In 1817 he took first place in the Prix de Rome competition for his cantata "La Mort d'Adonis".
Relevant evidence: No