Complex sentence: René Dupéré was Cirque du Soleil's first composer, to be followed eventually by Benoit Jutras, Violaine Corradi, Simon Carpentier, Philippe Leduc and Maria Bonzanigo.
Split into simpler sentences: René Dupéré was Cirque du Soleil's first composer. He would eventually be followed by composers Violaine Corradi, Simon Carpentier, Philippe Leduc and Maria Bonzanigo.